Brussels, 07/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - Tuesday, the chair of the European Ethics Group (EEG), Noelle Lenoir handed European Commission President Romano Prodi the opinion that the Group has just issued on the patentability of human stem cells. This opinion is in line with that of November 2000 on research concerning these cells of which the medical world expects a great deal for the treatment of certain degenerative diseases or cancer. At the time, the EEG, while placing emphasis on the need...