Britain Grants License to Make Human Embryos for Stem Cells

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The United Kingdom has granted a one-year licenxe to Newcastle Center for Life in England to engage in therapeutic cloning, a controversial procedure which entails generating and then destroying an embryo in order to harvest stem cells. In the process licensed, cell nuclei taken from a patient's skin are inserted into human eggs from which the nuclei have been extracted, after which stem cells develop as the embryo grows. Those stem cells subsequently are harvested and used for research.

United Kingdom, Licensing, certification and accreditation, Cloning, Human cloning

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Oil Prospecting Under Kremlin Watch

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TNK-BP, a joint venture between BP and Tyumen Oil, is hoping to be successful in Russia and avoid the kind of government issues that have plagued Yukos Oil Co.

Management dynamics, Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction, Crude petroleum and natural gas, Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas, Taxes, Russia, Petroleum refining, Management, Taxation, Energy policy, Petroleum industry, Political aspects, Tax policy, Company business management, OAO NK Yukos, TNK-BP

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Moving Stem Cells Front and Center

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Dr. Hans S. Keirstead of the University of California played a significant part in California's decision to fund stem cell research.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Research and Testing Services, California, Executive changes & profiles, Medical Research, Epilepsy & Muscle Disease R&D, Legal/Government Regulation, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Research Programs, Officials and employees, Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, University of California, Health policy, Medicine, Experimental, Keirstead, Hans S.

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