Ox Fall Down

"Specific emphasis is placed on the support of promising studies that have been excluded from federal funding since August 9, 2001, when President George W. Bush restricted federal support to studies using a particular set of human embryonic stem-cell lines that were already in existence at that time. The NIH Stem Cell Registry, a list that initially included 64 cell lines and later grew to include 78, has been reduced in practice over the ensuing three years to a mere 19 lines that are characterized and available to researchers."