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Plaintiffs in US stem-cell case try again
Posted on behalf of Meredith Wadman. The two adult stem cell scientists who are attempting to put a halt to US government funding of human embryonic stem cell research filed briefs today in a high-ranking US court that will hear oral arguments in the case in April. Lawyers for James Sherley, a senior scientist at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, and Theresa Deisher, the chief executive of AVM Biotechnology in Seattle, Washington, submitted this brief to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where a three-judge panel is set to hear oral arguments in Sherley et.
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