The Obama administration on Tuesday filed a notice stating that it will appeal a court decision which halted federal funding of stem cell research, and filed an emergency motion requesting the court stay its preliminary injunction which banned the use of the funds.Justice Department lawyers argue that the court should stay its preliminary injunction in order to “avoid terminating research projects midstream, invalidating results in process, and impeding or negating years of scientific progress toward finding new treatments for devastating illnesses such as diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and blindness, as well as crippling spinal cord injuries, through research involving human embryonic stem cells.”
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