Abstract
The National Institutes of Health in the USA has issued a list of human embryonic stem cell (ES) lines that ‘meet the president's criteria’. The 64 approved cell lines were derived in 10 labs in the USA, Sweden, India, Australia and Israel and are permitted for use in federally funded research on human ESs. President Bush decreed that, first, the cells were derived from embryos that were generated for reproductive purposes and were no longer needed. Second, consent had to be given for donation of the embryo, and the donation did not include ‘financial inducements’. Finally, the derivation process had to have been initiated before 9 August 2001. The publication of the list lifts the ban on federal funding of ESC research implemented earlier this year by the Bush administration. US stem cell researchers met the new developments with little enthusiasm. Tony Mazzaschi, associate vice president of the Association of American Medical Colleges said: ‘This may allow some limited research to get started, but I don't think anybody thinks this list will be sufficient when we start going into clinical research.’ More information is available at http://www.nih.gov. J.d.B.
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