Reagan lobbies for therapeutic cloning
Nancy Reagan, former first lady of the US, has been lobbying for a change in President Bush's policy on research into human embryo stem cells. The 81-year-old wife of former president Ronald Reagan has been 'obliquely but persistently campaigning' for federal funding of embryo stem cell research, according to...
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Genes and behaviour: getting the message across
by Juliet Tizzard
This week saw the publication of a new and much anticipated report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on the ethical issues arising from research into behavioural genetics. The report, entitled 'Genetics and human behaviour: the ethical context', is a weighty publication, the result of 18 months of fact finding...