Judge’s order puts stem-cell lab studies in limbo

Kansas City Star: “At the University of Missouri, Michael Roberts has a handful of plastic dishes containing human embryonic stem cells warming in an incubator — research suddenly ineligible for new federal money. ‘The American people should not be forced to pay for experiments — prohibited by federal law — that destroy human life,’ said [Steven Aden], the ADF’s senior legal counsel. ‘The court is simply enforcing an existing law passed by Congress that prevents Americans from paying another penny for needless research on human embryos.’”