October 15, 1999
Fight Over Stem-Cell Research Is Unlikely to Tie Up Spending Bill
Despite warnings from members of Congress, the fiscal-2000 spending bill for the National Institutes of Health apparently will not be held hostage in the political battle over stem-cell research, a controversial field of study that involves experiments on cells derived from human embryos.
In recent years, N.I.H. appropriations bills have included riders prohibiting the agency from supporting research in which human "embryos are destroyed, discarded or knowingly subjected to risk of
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