Appeals court overturns judge's previous ban on stem cell research

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. court of appeals in Washington overturned U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth’s order (in August) that would have blocked federal financing of stem cell research. Full article here.

Judge halts expansion of federal stem cell research with court order

On Monday, August 23, Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that President Obama’s 2009 executive order expanding embryonic stem cell research violates a ban on federal money being used to destroy embryos. The National Institutes of Health issued this notice: "NIH is not accepting submissions of information about human embryonic stem cell lines for NIH review. All review of human embryonic stem cell lines under the NIH Guidelines is suspended. The February 23, 2010, proposal to revise the Guidelines is also suspended." Stem cell research can still be carried out using private funds.

For more information, visit the New York Times for the full article.