Published 10 July 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2804
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b2804

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US National Institutes of Health issue guidelines on stem cell

Janice Hopkins Tanne

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The US National Institutes of Health have released rules about the use of embryonic stem cell lines in research funded by the institutes. This follows Barack Obama’s decision in March to remove the ban introduced by the previous US president, George Bush, on using federal funds to support embryonic stem cell research (BMJ 2009;338:b1011, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1011).

The rules state that the cells must come from embryos voluntarily donated for research with informed consent. They will come from donations of excess embryos by people treated at in vitro fertilisation clinics. The embryos would otherwise be discarded.

Donors must be informed during the consent process that they cannot make any restriction or direction about the use of the donated cells, such as who might be the recipients of cell transplants. They must also be told that the research is not intended to provide any direct benefit to them and that . . . [Full text of this article]


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