NP - Stem Cell Fumble

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                                  is this  r e a l l y  such a bad news? 

 kai frederik

David Morris schrieb:
> http://news.ft.com/news/worldnews/us
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> Professor warns US will miss out over stem cells
> By David Firn in London
> Published: August 14 2001 19:39GMT
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> The US will miss out on the medical and economic benefits of stem cell 
> research as a result of President George W. Bush's decision to restrict 
> federal funding for such research, according to a leading US researcher in 
> reproductive sciences who is "defecting" to the UK.
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> Professor Roger Pedersen, who has worked in the US for more than 30 years, 
> has left the University of California in San Francisco to take up a post 
> funded by the Medical Research Council at Cambridge University.
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> Writing for the Financial Times, Prof Pedersen said he decided to move to 
> the UK because he had become increasingly frustrated by the restrictions on 
> public funding for stem cell research in the US.
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> He said the US decision was a serious obstacle to developing new medical 
> treatments. By contrast, the UK's liberal guidelines on cloning and embryo 
> research as well as growing financial support for stem cell work from the 
> Medical Research Council made a breakthrough much more likely.
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