The National Institutes of Health has today taken a step towards facilitating the new administration policy on the use of human embryonic stem cells, opening a website where scientists funded by NIH can complete an application form for the use of certain cell lines.
scientists potentially have hundreds of lines available for now that President Obama has thrown out the restrictive Bush-era policy.
NIH director Francis Collins also announced the formation of a scientific working group, lawyers and ethicists to consider whether the stem cell lines eligible for federal funding in the context of new lines guidelines issued in July. Group president is Jeffrey R. Botkin, professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Collins will take the final decision on the eligibility of cells. They will then be listed on the registry of human embryonic stem cells NIH.
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