BY MAYA JACKSON RANDALL AND MARK H. ANDERSON
A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by scientists challenging U.S. government funding of embryonic stem-cell research, a victory for Obama administration efforts to expand this area of study.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth follows an April federal appeals-court finding that the National Institutes of Health acted properly when it implemented an executive order by President Barack Obama easing funding restrictions on such research.
In 2010, Judge ...
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