Germany will ease requirements of gene technology laws in bow to researchers
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The German government will ease its strict regulation of genetic engineering after scientists complained that the resulting paperwork was paralyzing research. The cumbersome requirements, enacted to reassure opponents of genetic engineering, have caused Germany to lag behind the rest of Europe in this area of research. In addition, anti-genetic-engineering groups demonstrated in Munich against the European Patent Office's decision to approve the patent for the Harvard oncomouse, Europe's first patent on an animal.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Budgetary pressures squeeze German research institutes
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The German government has demanded a reduction in the expenses and an increase in the accountability of national research centers. The Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin will be the first to stop its nuclear physics and electronics research activities. The German government is faced with financial difficulties due to the re-unification, and its consequent allocation of less funds to research institutes will result in these institutes losing a large number of their staff.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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German institutes, industry seek to ease genetic engineering laws
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A German scientific and industrial coalition is urging the German government to relax the laws that severely restrict the testing of new genetic engineering technology. The Max Planck Society, the country's largest independent research group, has joined the coalition. The Society would like to do away with the time-consuming filling out of redundant forms required by the current laws, which critics say were enacted in 1990 to placate the environmentalist Green party.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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