Washington covid-19 testing Washington

Fetal tissue ban blocks study of potential coronavirus therapies

Reading now: 427
www.sciencemag.org

A scientist at the federal Rocky Mountain Laboratories ​wants relief from recently imposed restrictions on fetal tissue research in order to conduct a study related to coronavirus disease 2019.

By Meredith WadmanThe Trump administration’s 2019 ban on the use of human fetal tissue by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is preventing a leading researcher from using special mice to test potential therapies for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), The Washington Post reports.According to the Post, Kim Hasenkrug, an immunologist at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories, has spent nearly 1 month appealing to the Trump administration to grant him an exemption to the administration’s strict policy.

Read more on sciencemag.org
The website covid-19.rehab is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA