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Published online 25 May 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050523-5
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Stem-cell vote defies Bush
US House of Representatives moves to relax constraints on embryo work.
In a challenge to a three-year-old presidential policy, lawmakers in the United States have passed a measure that would expand federal funding for human embryonic stem-cell research.
The House of Representatives passed the measure by a large majority (238 to 194) on Tuesday night.
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