Deadline May 26 to comment on the national health guidelines projects Institutes for research on human embryonic stem cells approaching, and scientists are fretting that the rules of the NIH for informed consent will disqualify many existing cell lines. Patrick Taylor, deputy general counsel at Children's Hospital Boston, in a commentary published online today in Cell Stem Cell , argues generally that the new rules should not be applied retroactively to the science, because it is always changing.
This is part of the Taylor decision on guidelines on stem cells available:
applied prospectively, the proposed rules of the NIH as they would stand a challenge field. But applied retroactively, the proposed regulations would create a tectonic shift: previously, only some former lines were fundable, and now in just some theory new lines are and will continue to be no federal funding available for research using cells created ethically since 01. important research need to be repeated and analyzes and reconstructed data. As currently described, it is as if the last 8 years of the establishment of the cell line and ethical self-regulation simply disappeared, to be replaced by a new funding structure that does not give weight to the existing science, ethics, self-regulation, donor intentions, or various cell lines.
Like other proposed federal rules, the draft guidelines appeared in the Federal Register -a daily compendium of advice agencies. His most devoted readers tend to be Washington policy wonk types of following their respective interests groups or organizations. Scientific societies generally comment on proposals that affect their members.
But individual scientists not involved enough, according to an article appearing as today in the journal Cell (subscription required). Science writer Amy Maxmen lists recent Federal Register comments applications involving transgenic organisms, gene patents and stem cells. It's easy to stay informed, she said: "Scientists can choose to be notified by e-mail as rules ... appears on the Federal Register by registering at http: // www .regulations.gov. "
therefore add to your list of things to do this week. But it is the observation of this science writer as important federal proposal that the policy on the NIH stem cell draw many comments. Like most of us, scientists tend to wait until the deadline, however.
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