February 16, 2007

International Group Proposes Guidelines for Embryonic-Stem-Cell Research

By SUSAN BROWN

An international group of scientists, ethicists, and legal experts has agreed upon a set of guidelines for experimenting with human embryonic stem cells. To encourage worldwide compliance, the committee has also called upon agencies that pay for research and upon journal editors to require investigators to adhere to the rules as a stipulation for receiving grants or publishing their work.

Committee members, who hail from 14 countries, hope international collaboration will flourish if

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