Congress smiles on research budgets

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Top US science agencies will see healthy budget increases after Congress agreed to match or exceed most funding requests made by President Bill Clinton for them. Most of the the major science agencies have had funding agreed, apart from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The energy and water appropriations bill will back small increases for nuclear and high energy physics, although almost none of the money requested for energy supply research has been granted.

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Stem-cell research and the US Congress

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US Senator Arlen Specter is pressing Congress to consider funding embryonic stem-cell research. Embryonic cells have a greater potential than adult stem-cells, but research faces vociferous opposition from anti-abortionists.

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Stem cells - hype and hope

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Stem cells are discussed with reference to their significance in understanding organ development in mammals. Studies of these cells may provide information which can be used to cure diseases such as liver failure.

Care and treatment, Diseases, Organs (Anatomy)

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