Thanks for this!
IMO this one article goes a long way to explaining why ACTC only qualified for their measly NIH funding last year.
...That standard has Lanza fuming....."I think the burden of proof lies with the NIH and the Bush administration to show that an embryo was harmed," Lanza said.
And this is the coup de gras.....
But one thing is clear, Hudson said: "Embryo biopsy is tricky and requires extraordinarily good hands and technical skills. And even in the best hands, embryos are sometimes lost."
As long as that risk is there, funding under Bush's policy will not be available, with one possible exception, Landis said.
Although the NIH will not fund Lanza's method of making stem cells, she said, the agency might fund studies on the cells themselves once they are isolated from the embryos with private money and the embryos are shown to be healthy.
Asked who would make that funding decision, Landis said it would be up to NIH officials. But pressed to say whether the White House would influence that determination, she paused.
"I'm sure they would have an interest in such a decision," she said.
No more Bush policy.....maybe more NIH funding?
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