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Not quite. The recent decision by the Ninth Circuit lets the prohibition stand as to bone marrow directly extracted from bones, but struck it down as to bone-marrow-derived stem cells extracted from blood. This should significantly increase the availability of donated bone marrow:

http://volokh.com/2011/12/01/paying-people-for-bone-marrow-d...



Whoopsie. I was unaware there was news on that front in the last 48 hours -- when I said "This side won", I meant "When drawing up the legislation twenty years ago."




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