Stem cell researchers slammed with funding freeze

The fallout from yesterday's startling preliminary injunction against federal support for embryonic stem cell work hit within a matter of hours as the NIH quickly hit the brakes on plans to issue up to $74 million in fresh R&D funding. And scientists as well as biotech executives around the country were left pondering what work could continue and what would have to wait until the situation was resolved. "This decision has just poured sand into this engine of discovery,'' said...

Stem cell labs disrupted by judge’s order

Labs engaged in embryonic stem cell research are scrambling this morning as they attempt to deal with the unexpected fall-out of a federal judge's ruling that President Barack Obama's executive order expanding the reach of the government's support for the field violated an earlier presidential ban on funding. "This ruling means an immediate disruption of dozens of labs doing this work since the Obama administration made its order," stem cell scientist George Daley tells The New York Times....