USA – Case comments

No regulatory body would have jurisdiction. Funding sources, academic institufertility tions, and scientific publishers might subject research that they sponsor or report to peer or other review. Not relevant, unless research is on embryo from an identifiable human. In the United States, both federal and state law regulate research involving human embryos. Federal law prohibits the use of federal funds for the creation of human embryos for research purposes, or for funding research in which embryos are “destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on foetuses in utero.” This statute, however, has no effect on privately-funded human embryonic stem cell research, which is not regulated by the federal government.