It's legal: Italian researchers defend their work with embryonic stem cells

Jacopo Pasotti & Ned Stafford

Embryonic stem-cell researchers in Italy have reacted strongly to comments made by a Catholic cardinal earlier this month that anyone involved in destroying human embryos — including scientists deriving stem cells for research — should be excommunicated.Concerned at the press coverage that followed the cardinal's statements, which implied that human embryonic stem-cell research is illegal in Italy, scientists from six different groups held a conference in Rome on 14 July to defend and explain their work.

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