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Nature 436, 608-609 (4 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436608a; Published online 3 August 2005

Senator boosts chances of stem-cell reform

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Majority leader changes mind over funding rules.

Prospects for US stem-cell research brightened considerably last week when a key Republican senator backed the idea of loosening funding restrictions on the work.In a speech on the floor of the Senate on 29 July, majority leader Bill Frist (Republican, Tennessee) endorsed efforts to increase federal funding for research on newly derived human embryonic stem-cell lines.

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