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State politics and the stem cell policy environment in the United States

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Signals Blog
Author
Nick Dragojlovic
Date
10:15 AM | February 20, 2013
Language
English
Categories
Biotechnology, Cell Biology
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http://www.signalsblog.ca/state-politics-and-the-stem-cell-policy-environment-in-the-united-states/
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- The regenerative medicine community greeted last month’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the legality of the Obama Administration’s stem cell policy with relief. The court found that federal funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is consistent with existing statutes, such as the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. The principal implication of this...Read more

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