Hours before San Bernardino shooting, doctors urged Congress to lift
funding ban on gun violence research
The market seems to have completely shrugged off the impact of China's
ICO funding ban as investor interest in Bitcoin remains strong after the recent activation of SegWit.
Meanwhile, groups looking for possible cures for devastating diseases, and seeing potential breakthroughs in other countries, urged Congress to cancel a federal
funding ban on fetal tissue research imposed by Reagan and continued under President George H.W. Bush.
Yesterday, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., ordered that
the funding ban he imposed 2 weeks ago stick for now.
In August, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed lifting
a funding ban on research that uses human stem cells to create animal embryos.
Despite an appeals court's temporary lift this month of
the funding ban, the injunction «has placed a cloud of uncertainty over this entire field,» Harkin noted.
Lawmakers appear poised to continue
the funding ban into the 2017 fiscal year.
The appeal also challenges Lamberth's decision on the «balance of harms» that result from
the funding ban.