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A broad research coalition has formally weighed in on the stem cell case, urging Chief Judge Royce Lamberth to suspend his injunction last week halting human embryonic stem cell research. Lamberth faces a Tuesday deadline to make his decision after the Department of Justice (DOJ) on 31 August asked for an emergency stay. Late this afternoon, with . . . → Read More: Stem Cell Case Has ‘Immediate and Devastating’ Impact, Says Research Group

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins said in a press call this afternoon that yesterday’s court injunction blocking federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) will not affect grant payments that have already gone out the door this year. That’s good news for scores of investigators who worried that their experiments would . . . → Read More: NIH Director Collins Says Cell Ruling Won’t Halt Most Ongoing Grants

ScienceDaily (Aug. 24, 2010) — In the aftermath of the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a dispersed oil plume was formed at a depth between 3,600 and 4,000 feet and extending some 10 miles out from the wellhead. An intensive study by scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . . . → Read More: Deepwater Oil Plume in Gulf Degraded by Microbes, Study Shows