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NIH announces draft stem-cell guidelines

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US agency outlines framework for funding human embryonic stem-cell work.

The National Institutes of Health today released a comprehensive set of draft guidelines intended to govern federally funded human embryonic stem cell research. The provisional rules were published 38 days after President Barack Obama signed an executive order freeing up federal money for research on hundreds of human embryonic stem cell lines.

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