The Scientific Activist reports on the final stem cell guidelines released by the NIH today and has some interesting commentary:
Today, the NIH has released its final guidelines (pdf).
Not much has changed, so there's not really much to say that I haven't already.The bad news is that the fairly restrictive nature of the rules wasmaintained (i.e. no federal funds for hESC lines derived from embryosgenerated specifically for research), but the good news is that thegovernment didn't cave into some fairly outlandish requests (clearlyfrom anti-abortion activists) to insert some loaded language into therules.