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Religiously Motivated Anti-Science Law Gets in the Way of Coronavirus Vaccine Testing

Accepted submission by exaeta at 2020-03-19 19:16:59 from the Coronavirus dept.
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The 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.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/fetal-tissue-ban-blocks-study-potential-coronavirus-therapies [sciencemag.org]


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