Cross posted from Nature’s The Great Beyond blog.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit minutes ago vacated a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding human embryonic stem cell research.
In this 2-1 decision in Sherley et al v. Sebelius, the majority wrote that the judge Royce Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Colmbia “abused [the court’s] discretion” when he issued this preliminary injunction that shut down NIH funding of stem cell research for 17 days last summer.