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Nature 456, 444-445 (27 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/456444a; Published online 26 November 2008
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Science, dogmas and the state
Elena Cattaneo1
Abstract
Misrepresentation of stem-cell science in Italy by political and religious groups is damaging that nation's laws and the funding and perceived value of biomedical research, argues Elena Cattaneo.
BOOK REVIEWED-Staminalia: Le Cellule Etiche e i Nemici Della Ricerca
by Armando Massarenti
Guanda: 2008. 205 pp. 
14.50 (in Italian)
On 1 April 2004, Elizabeth Blackburn, co-discoverer of the telomerase enzyme, published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled 'Bioethics and the political distortion of biomedicine'. In it she reported her experience of working on, and being suddenly fired from, the US President's Council on Bioethics as it drew up its report on monitoring stem-cell research.
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