Sentences with phrase «hearing on embryonic stem cell research»
«We thought the fight was over,» Tom Harkin (D — Iowa) and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies said at a hearing on embryonic stem cell research on Thursday.
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Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction on this research after hearing a petition from a group of advocates who argued that, contrary to the U.S. government's view, research on embryonic stem cells does in fact destroy embryos — action that is prohibited by legislation known as the «Dickey - Wicker Amendment» to the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services.
In a Senate hearing today on the ongoing legal tussle over human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, lawmakers and expert witnesses lamented the disruption to this promising research.
Congresswoman Lois Capps addressed the benefits of these studies Wednesday for the Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee hearing on stem cell research in Washington, D.C., applauding researcher's diligence despite administration interventions prohibiting federally funded embryonic stem cell research.