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PRESIDENT Barack Obama couldn’t have picked a better moment to lift George Bush’s restrictions on the federal funding of research on human embryonic stem cells (ESCs).
The move comes as the (NIH), the financial engine behind much US biomedical research, prepares for an unprecedented windfall of as part of the Obama administration’s “economic stimulus” package. While most of this money will fund grant proposals that have already been submitted, some will go to new projects, which can now include a broad…
