Red tape holding up work on stem cells?

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Red tape holding up work on stem cells? -

Stem cell researchers fear that they will have to stop working with some of their favorite cell lines, NPR reported yesterday. Geneticist Julie Baker of Stanford University, said she faced a "huge setback." tough new administrative requirements to get a line inscribed in the National Institutes of Health registry stem-cell researchers lines only federally funded can use-have delayed the announcement of several lines derived from the University of Wisconsin. One problem is that some embryos whose lines were derived from a fertility clinic in Israel. A spokesman WiCell, a nonprofit group affiliated with the university said: "Without direct access to the records of these lines ourselves, we work to overseas clinic for additional documentation"

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