Scientists appeal to revoke funding ban on embryo research

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The congressionally imposed ban on US government funding of embryo research has come under attack from prominent American scientists who

believe that lack of federal support prevents many of the nation's talented researchers from participating in one of the most promising avenues of biomedical research. Their unhappiness

with the funding prohibition comes specifically in response to recent news that two privately funded teams have developed and grown human stem cells for the first time, one group using

embryos as its source. On December 2nd, the scientists involved in the work—James Thomson, of the University of Wisconsin's primate research center, and John Gearhart, of Johns Hopkins

University School of Medicine—and National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus took their case to Capitol Hill. Government funding of research using embryos is essential if such work

is to continue at a rapid pace, the researchers told members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education. This is a preview of subscription

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revoke funding ban on embryo research. _Nat Med_ 5, 6 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/4673 Download citation * Issue Date: January 1999 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/4673 SHARE THIS ARTICLE

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