Elie Dolgin | May 13, 2009 | 5 min read
The retroactive nature of the NIH's proposed guidelines on human stem cell research will exclude funding for many existing stem cell lines that were ethically created yet don't meet the stringent criteria of the proposal's technical requirements, according to a new linkurl:report;http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(09)00210-0 published online today (May 14) in __Cell Stem Cell__. The proposed regulations outline nine distinct elements to be documented in written informed cons