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SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil’s Supreme Court is set to decide whether scientists in Latin America’s largest country can conduct embryonic stem cell research, which many say can lead to cures for degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
The court’s 11 justices are scheduled to rule today on a 2005 petition by then-Attorney General Claudio Fontelles, who argued that a new law allowing embryonic stem cell research was unconstitutional because it violated the right to life.
The law opened the way for research with embryos resulting from in-vitro fertilization that are frozen for at least three years.
