Date:2/18/2008

current so-called qualifying date rule should be abolished and the threat of punishment hanging over German scientists should be lifted. It thus welcomes the fact that all of the parties involved in the current debate in the Federal Parliament evidently see the question of punishing German scientists collaborating with foreign colleagues in this area as being outdated and obsolete. The DFG recognises this as a sign that the distrust of German stem cell researchers has ceased to exist.

The DFG wishes to point out again, quite clearly, that imported stem cell lines may still only be harvested from so-called supernumerary embryos, in other words embryos that are no longer required for reproductive purposes.

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Contact: Eva-Maria Streier em.streier@dfg.de 49-228-885-2250 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Source:Eurekalert

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