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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

US appeals court allows stem cell funding to continue

Amplify’d from www.alternet.org

A US appeals court ruled Tuesday that federal funding of stem cell research can continue, dissolving a lower court's ban while the government and activists fight over whether the funding is legal.

"It is ordered that... the motion for stay pending appeal of the preliminary injunction... be granted," the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit said, without further detail.

The order overturns an August 23 ban on federal funding for the research, after US District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled it should be put on hold while a coalition of groups challenged its legality.

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