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Court quashes stem-cell lawsuit

Nature volume 476, pages 14–15 (2011)Cite this article

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US judge throws out case meant to halt federal funding, but research remains vulnerable.

Was the case a fluke or a forewarning? Now that a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to halt US government funding of research using human embryonic stem cells, scientists who depend on that support are left wondering whether the battle is truly over, or is merely moving on to a different arena.

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