The Obama administration says it will appeal a federal judge’s blocking of President Obama’s executive order restoring funding for embryonic stem cell research. On Monday, US District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled the funding violates a 1996 law prohibiting federal money for any research that destroys or threatens human embryos. Obama’s order had overturned a move by his predecessor George W. Bush to further restrict stem cell funding. The National Institutes of Health says dozens of experiments in diseases will likely be canceled as long as the ruling is in place.