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US biotechnology companies are said to be bracing for continued financial problems in 1999 as the public markets look to industries that can provide quicker, more reliable returns.
The US government has issued a legal opinion saying that research on human embryonic stem cells does not fall under a ban on federal funding for human embryo research.
Physicist Akito Arima, the former president of Tokyo University and currently Japan's minister of education, is also to become director-general of the Science and Technology Agency.
Leaders of the Human Genome Project have rejected a proposed memorandum of understanding between the US Department of Energy the private corporation established last May by geneticist Craig Venter to sequence the genome.
A two-day conference on in utero gene therapy has concluded last that many significant scientific and ethical questions remain to be answered before the practice can or should be attempted in humans.
A leading US senator is questioning whether the National Institutes of Health can effectively spend the $2 billion, 15 per cent increase it received in the current fiscal year.
Two researchers in the Russian Academy of Sciences have warned that a new tax code currently being discussed in the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, “could kill Russian science rather than support it”.
A rocket scientist who was falsely charged with spying five years ago has issued a $250,000 suit against the government of the state of Kerala and the central government in New Delhi.
The planned opening of a controversial 20 MW research reactor being built near Munich could depend on the outcome of discussions being held this week by Germany's new coalition government on its nuclear policy.