A wide research coalition officially weighed on the case of stem cells, urging the judge Royce Lamberth chief of suspend the injunction last week to stop research on human embryonic stem cells. Lamberth faces a Tuesday deadline to make his decision after the Department of Justice (DOJ) on August 31 asked for an emergency stay. In the late afternoon, with a long weekend looming, the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR), an advocacy group that comprises about 100 patient organizations, scientific societies and foundations, filed a 11-page amicus curiae hoping to tip the judge in that direction.
The CAMR brief focuses on two elements, he said, need to be taken into account in evaluating the injunction, the public interest in the case and the impact of the stay on the patients. The coalition argues that if the injunction the judge to stop the current search, "the result would be an immediate and devastating impact on ongoing research," in part because researchers "have no way of knowing whether these activities can resume. " Because it takes so long already to transform basic scientific discoveries into actual treatments, delay "inevitably harm patients," the coalition argued.
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