Stem cells: A legal round table

September 23, 2010

The funding fates of hundreds of US scientists were thrown into question last month when a federal district court judge issued an injunction stopping the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding human embryonic stem cell research (see Case History). The injunction, temporarily lifted on 9 September after an appeal from the Department of Justice, has raised questions and confusion about what research may or may not be funded while the case is before the Court and what may happen afterwards. (Nature News)