Stem Cell Ruling

Everyone's trying to determine what a federal court ruling on stem cells means after a judge issued a preliminary injunction stopping federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The ruling came Monday and some interpretations of it could even curtail stem cell research allowed under former President George Bush. President Barack Obama had signed an order last year that repealed the Bush policy limiting federal dollars for stem cell research. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled aid for research that involves the destruction of embryos violates rules of federal spending bills.

On Here and Now this Friday, August 27, we'll talk with Dr. Timothy Kamp, director of UW's Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center, for his reaction to the court ruling. UW-Madison researchers pioneered stem cell science and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation holds several stem cell patents.