With President-elect Obama poised to lift the ban on federal funding for new embryonic stem cell research… Wisconsin scientists could be among those to benefit. But Jamie Thompson — the U-W Madison researcher who pioneered the field — says the immediate gains could be limited at first.
President Bush signed an executive order back in August of 2001 banning federal funding from being used on researching embryonic stem cell lines created after that date. Federal funding was still provided for stem cell lines created before the ban. (Second item.)