A three-judge panel of a US Appeals Court lifted an injunction against the NIH's revised policy on the funding of stem cell research.
The new policy, which would open up research funding to many more human embryonic stem cell lines (hESCs), attracted a lawsuit from researchers who focus on adult stem cells, who claimed that their chances of obtaining grants had been diminished.
That suit produced an injunction that would block the National Institutes of Health from distributing funding for hESC work. The Appeals Court had previously stayed this injunction; now it has lifted it entirely, although the case is continuing towards trial at the District Court level.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/appeals-court-lifts-stem-cell-funding-injunction.ars
