NIH bucks political trend to win increased funds from Congress

Article Abstract:

The US House of Representatives' subcommittee on health and human services, labor, and education of the House Appropriations Committee passed a bill on Jun 14, 1996, to increase the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) funding for the 1997 fiscal year by 6.9%. The full House Appropriations Committee, the House, Senate bodies, and Pres Bill Clinton have to approve the bill for it to become a law. The subcommittee voted against giving the Office of AIDS Research the power to regulate NIH funds spent on AIDS research and against extending the ban on aid to human embryo research.

Finance, Economic policy, Budget, Budgeting, Budgets, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, 1997 AD

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Embryo research barred from federal funds

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Pres. Bill Clinton has signed a bill which bans government funding of human embryo research. The concession was part of a package aimed at preventing a further shutdown of parts of the government. The bill, which takes effect by the end of FY 1996, reduces the chances of the National Institutes of Health initiating embryo research in FY 1997. Researchers have been incensed by the administration's concession to conservative Republicans and lament that crucial work on embryo research could be delayed.

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Cloning for research 'should be allowed'

Article Abstract:

Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute, head of the research team that cloned Dolly the sheep, supports US moves to ban the cloning of human beings, although he feels that human embryos that are not implanted can be created for research purposes. However, Wilmut believes that such technology would currently be more appropriately developed in laboratory animals, because of the restricted number of oocytes available for research with human embryos.

Scientific Research and Development Services, Science, Research & Development, Ethical aspects, Cloning

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