French move past Genethon to gene-therapy research
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Genethon, the French laboratory which successfully mapped human chromosome 21, will be dissolved, and the French muscular dystrophy foundation (AFM) will turn its assets to research in gene therapy. AFM will combine the $16.9 million it donated to Genethon with money from other charities to create a number of biotechnology companies along the lines of American companies such as Somatic Therapy and Viagene. This shift in genetic research comes just as approval is expected for the first French gene-therapy trial.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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Drastic changes called for in French space programme
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France's space program has grown four-fold since 1992 but lacks a coherent policy. Its objectives have not been arrived at through deliberation, but haphazardly. A report issued in Oct 1992 by the Comite National d'Evaluation de la Recherche laments the neglect of other areas of research that has resulted, and recommends parliamentary debate on the topic. It also recommends that the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales divest itself of commercial activities and devote itself to research.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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French court upholds use of animals, fines activists for theft of baboons
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The right of researchers to experiment on animals was upheld in France concerning animal rights activists who took 17 baboons from a Centre National de le Recherche Scientifique laboratory in 1985. The seven activists maintained that the inhumane conditions in which the baboons were living made rescuing them justifiable. However, the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that animal research is a legally proper activity.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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