Stem-Cell Ruling Causes Gloom, Anxiety Among Scientists

Stem-cell scientists still reeling from a judge?s ruling that their life?s work violates federal law received little reassurance about their job security from the nation?s largest funder of these studies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Describing stem-cell research as one of the more promising engines of scientific discovery, NIH director Francis Collins said the legal decision “poured sand into that engine of discovery.”