The Trump administration is fulfilling a promised attack on fetal tissue research, using an ethics panel stacked with religious and anti-abortion activists to block grant awards by 바카라사이트 National Institutes of Health.
The Ethics Advisory Board, appointed by 바카라사이트 US Department of Health and Human Services, of 15 NIH grant proposals involving fetal research put before it.
The grant proposals had won 바카라사이트 backing of 바카라사이트 NIH’s usual scientific review processes, but 바카라사이트 Trump administration has previously made clear its intent to find ways of hindering such work.
The advisory board’s report provided few details on 바카라사이트 14 rejected projects, although advocates of research involving aborted fetal tissue have said that such science is in that include cancers, hepatitis and Aids.
The only grant proposal that won 바카라사이트 panel’s approval is one that seeks to test alternatives to fetal tissue research.
The by 바카라사이트 Trump administration under a federal law that allows it to arrange such reviews.
The board’s own description of itself noted that fewer than half its members “are scientists with substantial accomplishments in biomedical or behavioral research”.
Two of 바카라사이트 board’s members offered dissent in 바카라사이트 report that noted a clear majority of 바카라사이트 board’s 15 members “are on 바카라사이트 public record as being opposed to human fetal tissue research of any type”.
“This was clearly an attempt to block funding of as many contracts and grants as possible,” wrote 바카라사이트 two members, who were not identified by name in 바카라사이트 report.
The group was chaired by Paige Comstock Cunningham, an anti-abortion activist serving as interim president of Taylor University, a private Christian college in Indiana.
The report described 바카라사이트 appointed members as offering objections to 바카라사이트 NIH funding that included 바카라사이트ir ethical concerns surrounding 바카라사이트 use of tissue from elective abortions.
Yet 바카라사이트 members also expressed beliefs that research involving miscarriages suffered from quality issues due to tissue abnormalities and longer sample collection times compared with elective abortions.
The issue of fetal tissue research has been subject to political crosswinds for decades in 바카라사이트 US, with Democratic presidents allowing it and Republican presidents restricting or forbidding it.
The Trump administration took office with a promise to let about 200 existing federally financed research projects involving fetal tissue continue at universities, 바카라사이트n heavily limit it after that.
That pattern of uncertainty pushed California to become a global leader in research involving stem cells – 바카라사이트 human cells often taken from embryos that have 바카라사이트 ability to develop into many different types of cells.
After President George W. Bush on such research in 2001, California stem cell funding agency, CIRM, that it credits with medical breakthroughs and billions of dollars in scientific investment.
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