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Currently, federal guidelines only permit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund embryonic stem cell research using cell lines created before August 2001. This creates significant hardship for scientists, limiting both financial and physical resources. Embryonic stem cell researchers are also prohibited from using any equipment purchased with federal funds...
...representatives at Harvard and in Travaglini’s office say that not even California’s efforts are enough and that NIH needs to fund stem cell research...
...California is in a better situation if they can get their act together. But if you consider the $30 billion a year budget for the NIH, California’s stem cell initiative still doesn’t make up for it,” says Jane Corlette, Harvard’s associate vice-president for government, community, and public affairs. “That puts all of us in the U.S. behind...
Because the federal government will only fund experiments with embryonic stem cells from lines that existed before August 2001—which amounted to $28 million in funding from the NIH in 2004—but does fund experiments with adult stem cells freely, scientists have felt particularly pressed to prove the necessity for research on the embryonic lines...
...tended to focus on young researchers, particularly those engaging in new research,” says Jennings. “The NIH is pretty conservative in funding new projects...