The legal tangle over the status of human embryonic stem cell research in the United States has slowed stem cell research as a whole, reports a survey released today in Cell Stem Cell.
Arthur Levine, an analyst at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, asked 370 US scientists how ongoing uncertainty about the legality of human embryonic stem cell research was affecting their work. The survey, conducted in November 2011, came soon after the National Institutes of Health was permitted to restart its funding for human embryonic stem cell research; funding was halted from late August to early September, after a US District Court judge issued a preliminary injunction stopping the research in response to a lawsuit.
Levine's survey found that the temporary ban on research had a widespread impact in the human embryonic stem cell research community, with 75 percent of survey respondents reporting that it had some impact on their work and 24 percent reporting that the impact was substantial. What's more, 41 percent of stem cell researchers not working with human embryonic stem cells also reported that the temporary ban had an impact on their work.
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