March 9, 2009

For Universities, Expected Shift on Stem-Cell Funds Means New Opportunities and New Risks

By Paul Basken

Washington

President Obama plans to sign an executive order today largely ending eight years of limits on federal financing of human-embryonic-stem-cell research that have tangled university laboratories in bureaucracy while slowing advances in one of the most promising fields of medical research.

Mr. Obama is acting just three weeks after he signed an economic-stimulus measure that allocates more than $10-billion for medical research (

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