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Ruling a blow to stem cell research

By Karen Kaplan and Noam N. Levey August 24, 2010.

Print: Los Angeles Times

A U.S. district judge on Monday blocked the federal government from funding all research involving human embryonic stem cells on the grounds that it violates a 1996 law intended to prevent the destruction of of human embryos.