Ethical Stem Cell Research Gets New Blood with US House Funding Bill Funding must pass Senate first By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Ethical stem-cell research received a funding boost from the US House of Representatives on Thursday after it passed an appropriations bill allotting $15 million to the National Cord Blood Inventory (NCBI) program. The House voted Thursday 276-140 to pass the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill (H.R. 3043) for fiscal year 2008, which included the funding that will be put toward the NCBI to collect cord blood. Stem cells derived from...