National Institutes of Health officials are busy sorting thousands of comments on the proposed guidelines on stem cells in the body that poured in until the deadline of 23 hours on May 26 Last week, Acting Director Raynard Kington NIH said the agency had received 20,000 submissions; Officials said today that the final number is likely much higher.
Stem cell advocates have expressed serious concern for the ethical requirements set out in the draft in particular guidelines, informed consent procedures for donor-embryo will spread the use of several existing human embryonic stem cell lines including 21 lines approved under the Bush administration.
In his commentary on the draft policy, the International Society for Stem Cell Research NIH request to set a "core principles" covering what is ethically acceptable rather than setting explicit rules that could exclude "lines which were used routinely for the last ten years. "Others have called for NIH to" grandfather "in the Bush-approved lines. NIH must make its final policy on July 7.
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