{"id":9239,"date":"2010-09-17T11:31:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iposgoode.ca\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2010-09-17T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:31:21","slug":"stem-cell-divides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/osgoode\/iposgoode\/2010\/09\/17\/stem-cell-divides\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cell Divides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ivy Tsui is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/scienceinsider\/2010\/08\/injunction-leaves-stem-cell-rese.html\">August 23rd, 2010<\/a>, American human embryonic stem cell (hESC) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100831\/full\/467012a.html\">researchers<\/a> suddenly found themselves banished from their labs, due to District Court Judge <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2010\/08\/25\/whats-next-for-stem-cell-research\/\">Royce Lamberth<\/a>\u2018s issuance of an <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2009cv1575-44\">injunction<\/a> halting their <a href=\"http:\/\/stemcells.nih.gov\/\">National Institutes of Health (NIH)<\/a> funding. The injunction, which led to the suspension of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-24\/stem-cell-grants-worth-54-million-held-up-by-u-s-after-judge-s-decision.html\">many million<\/a>s of dollars in funding, was based on the premise that hESC research violates the 1996 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnapolicy.org\/policy.international.php?laws_id=36&amp;action=detail\">Dickey-Wicker Amendment<\/a>. When considering both sides of the argument, we must bear in mind that the Amendment was passed before hESCs were even isolated (this first happened in 1998), and the therapeutic potential of hESCs had thus yet to be actualized.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>ESCs are derived from early embryos that have the capability to differentiate into multiple cell types, holding promises for potentially curing diseases that currently have no treatment options. The first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geron.com\/media\/pressview.aspx?id=1229\">clinical trial<\/a> of hESC therapy has been approved, for instance, by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat spinal cord injuries. Under current policy, ESCs must be obtained from leftover embryos that would otherwise be discarded with the donor\u2019s consent. Yet the two plaintiffs that instigated this injunction were actually adult stem cell researchers who claimed hESC research had created unfair competition for researchers working on adult stem cells, which did not involve destroying embryos.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HESC research has always been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/spp\/cstc\/briefs\/stemcells\/\">controversial<\/a> political issue. While President Clinton signed the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, President Obama signed an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Removing-Barriers-to-Responsible-Scientific-Research-Involving-Human-Stem-Cells\/\">executive order<\/a> in 2009 which seemingly uncompromisingly encouraged hESC research. Yet Obama left the Amendment on the books, a move some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2010\/08\/political-scene-the-dicky-wicker-snare.html\">blame<\/a> for the disorder surrounding the injunction. The injunction, for instance, left it unclear whether scientists are legally allowed to analyze data that had already been generated by hESC cell lines. Researchers in the field have complained that such restrictions place an unbearable emotional and financial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100908\/full\/467138a.html\">burden<\/a> on them, and caution that younger researchers will be dissuaded from pursuing their <a href=\"http:\/\/esciencenews.com\/articles\/2010\/09\/08\/researchamerica.asks.congress.support.embryonic.stem.cell.research.now\">interests<\/a> in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Legal manoeuvrings have come from all quarters: the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR) submitted a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/scienceinsider\/assets\/2010\/09\/03\/CAMR%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf\">brief<\/a> challenging the legality of the injunction; on September 7<sup>th<\/sup>, Judge Lamberth rejected an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/07\/AR2010090705799.html\">appeal<\/a> filed by the Obama administration asking him to lift the injunction; and finally, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/health\/resumes+funding+controversial+stem+cell+research\/3507149\/story.html\">September 10<sup>th<\/sup><sup> <\/sup><\/a>, an appeals court lifted the ban for an undetermined period, temporarily allowing for the resumption of hESC research. The fact that the legal struggle is taking place in an election year ensures that the issue is unlikely to be neatly resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivy Tsui is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School On August 23rd, 2010, American human embryonic stem cell (hESC) researchers suddenly found themselves banished from their labs, due to District Court Judge Royce Lamberth\u2018s issuance of an injunction halting their National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. 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