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By Monya Baker of Nature magazine The first company to test a human embryonic stem-cell product in patients has become the first big player to bail out of the field. [More]

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Procedures that involve human embryonic stem cells cannot be patented, the European Court of Justice declared today. Oliver Br

By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine Was the case a fluke or a forewarning? Now that a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to halt US government funding of research using human embryonic stem cells, scientists who depend on that support are left wondering whether the battle is truly over, or is merely moving on to a different arena. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued his decision on 27 July, acknowledging a higher court's opinion that overruled a preliminary injunction that he had placed to suspend the funding last August (see 'Trying times' )