{"id":6689,"date":"2010-08-26T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T14:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:22:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:22:43","slug":"stem-cell-ruling-hits-bu-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/26\/stem-cell-ruling-hits-bu-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem-cell ruling hits BU researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6690\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/stem-cell-harvest-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"stem cell harvest\" width=\"108\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/stem-cell-harvest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/stem-cell-harvest-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/stem-cell-harvest.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 108px) 100vw, 108px\" \/>The Obama administration is <a title=\"appealing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/25\/health\/policy\/25stem.html?scp=1&amp;sq=stem%20cell&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">appealing<\/a> a federal court ruling that challenged the legality of the president&#8217;s rules governing human embryonic stem cell research.\u00a0 Until a decision is made, however, federally funded research around the nation is threatened, including projects at Boston University.\u00a0 In a <em>BU Today<\/em> <a title=\"interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/11404\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>, School of Medicine hemotology and oncology assistant Professor <a title=\"George Murphy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/research-activities\/george-murphy-phd\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Murphy <\/a>discusses the endangered research under way at BU and researchers&#8217; reaction to the court injunction.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Regardless of what our personal beliefs are, there\u2019s no place in science for personal beliefs. We\u2019re trying to operate on a higher plane, where everything is the research itself. What\u2019s most upsetting to us as scientists is that courts make decisions they\u2019re not completely informed about. And the public is in the dark.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact George Murphy, 617-638-7520, <a href=\"mailto:gjmurphy@bu.edu\">gjmurphy@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration is appealing a federal court ruling that challenged the legality of the president&#8217;s rules governing human embryonic stem cell research.\u00a0 Until a decision is made, however, federally funded research around the nation is threatened, including projects at Boston University.\u00a0 In a BU Today interview, School of Medicine hemotology and oncology assistant Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3556,3558,3557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions\/7547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}