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"The Scientist" reports: "... scientists at the National Institutes of Health will no longer be able to study human fetal tissue, although projects funded by the US government at external institutions can continue with increased ethical oversight. An anonymous senior official in President Donald Trump’s administration tells the Associated Press<https://www.apnews.com/39680703a5eb4caf90d55ca75af64e50> that the decision was Trump’s. “Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump’s administration,” HHS’s statement reads. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/nih-scientists-banned-from-studying-human-fetal-tissue-65977?utm_campaign=TS_DAILY%20NEWSLETTER_2019&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73462610&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9FCpixYQUjlkTyl8gZMj6JQSfM6vlPrUqQQt_qvjW_NxoXRWYb8sBwCfdtLWvKMN8OsYCfGIEQhe_uUkixKuWeKGrcYw&_hsmi=73462610 [https://cdn.the-scientist.com/assets/articleNo/65977/aImg/32271/esc-thumb-m.png]<https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/nih-scientists-banned-from-studying-human-fetal-tissue-65977?utm_campaign=TS_DAILY%20NEWSLETTER_2019&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73462610&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9FCpixYQUjlkTyl8gZMj6JQSfM6vlPrUqQQt_qvjW_NxoXRWYb8sBwCfdtLWvKMN8OsYCfGIEQhe_uUkixKuWeKGrcYw&_hsmi=73462610> NIH Scientists Banned from Studying Human Fetal Tissue<https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/nih-scientists-banned-from-studying-human-fetal-tissue-65977?utm_campaign=TS_DAILY%20NEWSLETTER_2019&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=73462610&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9FCpixYQUjlkTyl8gZMj6JQSfM6vlPrUqQQt_qvjW_NxoXRWYb8sBwCfdtLWvKMN8OsYCfGIEQhe_uUkixKuWeKGrcYw&_hsmi=73462610> www.the-scientist.com External researchers funded by US federal grants can continue their experiments under tighter scrutiny. The Trump Administration had already asked HHS to stop acquiring fetal tissue in September 2018. It had also limited a contract with the University of California, San Francisco, to use fetal tissue on studies of HIV, and that project has now been discontinued, according to HHS’s announcement yesterday. New applications or requests for renewals of external projects will have to go through an ethics review ... Adrian, Smith [retired] Headingley ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MIDWIFERY-RESEARCH&A=1