BIOETHICS
This week, the Supreme Court announced it would refuse to hear arguments seeking to ban federally funded research using embryonic stem cells, effectively setting the issue of limited federal funding for such research to rest.
SCIENCE EDUCATION
A bill that would create broad new legal immunities for school teachers to deny accepted science on biological evolution, climate change, the chemical origins or life, and human cloning inches its way toward the governor’s desk.
STEM CELL RESEARCH
A Divided D.C. Circuit panel reversed Judge Lamberth’s decision to ban federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It appears very likely, if not entirely certain, that stem cell research will ultimately be upheld against future challenges.
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