August 12, 2004 By Fausta

What Funding Ban?

Amount spent by the National Institutes of Health

on stem cell research, in millions.

	2001	2002	2003
Human Embryonic	$0.0	$10.7	$24.8
Human Non-Embryonic	151.6	170.9	190.7
Non-Human Embryonic	40.5	71.5	113.5
Non-Human Non-Embryonic	113.9	134.0	192.1
Total	306.0	387.1	521.1

Source: Office of Management and budget.

From the WSJ’s The (Political) Science of Stem Cells: Far from banning research, Bush is expanding federal funding