TITLE

Politics Trumps Science

AUTHOR(S)
Smith, Wesley J.
PUB. DATE
June 2001
SOURCE
Human Life Review;Summer2001, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p36
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Examines the conflict between science and politics on embryonic stem-cell research in the United States. Removal of a text in stem-cell research due to its political impact; Article on the defects in a cloned mice from embryonic stem cells; Efforts in Congress for a ban to human cloning.
ACCESSION #
5438302

Tags: EMBRYONIC stem cells -- Research;  HUMAN cloning

 

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