Supreme Court lets stand ruling allowing federally-funded embryonic stem-cell research

... 2010, a federal district court, citing the Dickey-Wicker amendment, halted federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. In 2011, however, a federal appeals court ruled that the language of the amendment is "ambiguous" and that it does not apply ...

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