In September, President Donald Trump’s administration ordered National Institutes of Health labs to stop acquiring human fetal tissue for research, ScienceInsider reports. Agency officials say the order applies to intramural research and not to that of scientists at non-NIH institutions receiving agency grants or contracts.
This move has affected two labs, NIH officials tell ScienceInsider: one run by the National Eye Institute, which uses fetal retinal tissue to study eye diseases, and another at a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases facility in Montana, which uses humanized mice generated using fetal tissue to study HIV infection.
“We were all poised to go and then the bombshell was dropped,” Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Center for HIV Cure Research in San Francisco, California, who was collaborating with the Montana lab, tells ScienceInsider. The two groups were about to start experiments in humanized mice testing an antibody-based treatment to prevent ...
