March 30, 2007

NIH Director Calls for Easing Administration's Stem-Cell Restrictions

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health, broke ranks with his boss last week by telling members of Congress that President Bush's restrictions on funds for research on human embryonic stem cells are blocking progress in the field and should be relaxed.

At the same hearing, four academic scientists and Dr. Zerhouni also testified that the agency's flat financing threatens to slow the pace of research advances for curing cancer and other diseases, just as

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