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The use of cloning techniques should be permitted in human embryo research under restricted circumstances, recommends a report by the UK Human Genetics Advisory Commission and the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority.
Some international AIDS researchers are considering boycotting the forthcoming World AIDS Congress in South Africa in protest against a decision to abandon plans to administer AZT to pregnant mothers.
The award of the first US patent for expressed sequence tags has led to speculation that similar rights might soon be granted to gene fragments whose patents have been pending for years.
Biomedical researchers in Germany and Britain are calling for greater support from research organizations following a wave of violence and death threats by animal rights activists.
The US Department of Energy is preparing to investigate claims that underground fluids may have entered its proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, possibly less than a million years ago.
A wide-ranging overhaul of university funding in New Zealand has pleased polytechnics and Crown Research Institutes, but attracted criticism from university leaders and researchers.
Farmers protesting against genetically engineered food crops last week destroyed a plot where cotton produced by the US company Monsanto was undergoing field trial.
Scientists in Moscow have rejected an agreement reached with the government last month and have vowed to continue their protests at the lack of adequate funding.
Officials in charge of the newly recovered Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite are proposing that an extra layer of US-European management should be added.
A plan to transform the funding of basic research in Australia has raised a storm of protest following the leakage of extracts from a confidential government document.
A proposal by heads of German universities that university professors should be paid on the basis of their performance has triggered a sharp controversy.