Biotech critic tries to sew up research on chimaeras
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Jeremy Rifkin and Stuart Newman of New York Medical College calim that they have a patent on fusing human stem cells in mouse embryos. Examiners at the US Patent and Trademark Office have recommended that the patent application, filed in 1997, be turned down.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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Science shares the limelight as election battle enters final phase
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Stem-cell research has occupied a prominent position in the 2004 American presidential campaign. Nuclear non-proliferation also took an unexpectedly prominent role in the presidential debate.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Genome project turns up evolutionary surprises
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The latest scientific findings from the project ENCODE on the instruction embedded in the human genome which reveals the evolution that shaped the human species is reviewed.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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