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What are the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guidelines on the use of stem cells derived from embryonic cells?

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What are the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guidelines on the use of stem cells derived from embryonic cells?

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Currently, there are no federal laws which prohibit embryonic stem cell research. However, there are federal policies that limit the use of federal research funding. In the fiscal year 2003, for example, federal research grants to biomedical researchers totaled more than $20 billion. Federal funds are available for embryonic stem cell research using lines derived prior to August 2001 based on policies set by President George W. Bush and regulated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In fact, there is quite a lot of federal money available for human embryonic stem cell research, but it is only available to conduct research on the few stem cell lines that are approved for use by the federal government.