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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8598

4 December 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/research
Council fails to adopt ethical framework for research into stem cells from human embryos - with end of moratorium, Community funding becomes possible in 2004 - Commission will respect rules it proposed

Brussels, 03/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The compromise proposed by the Italian presidency for attempting to toughen up the ethical framework proposed by the European Commission on community funding for research into stem cells from human embryos will have only survived a few hours. The draft intended to ban the funding for removing cells from embryos, which was agreed to, but it also proposed limiting funding for research on existing stem cell lines at the adoption of the draft (in principle,...

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