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Top scientists back human cloning ban

More than 60 of the world's leading science academies have called for a UN ban on the reproductive cloning of humans, to prevent the exploitation of vulnerable people. But they also urged that any such ban should not extend to cloning human tissue for the treatment of diseases. Britain forbids human cloning but has given the go-ahead to research into so-called therapeutic cloning for diseases s...

A tale of two Germanys

Editor—The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of communism in eastern Europe and in eastern Germany. As McKee and Fister point out, certain constellations of epidemiological and demographic variables characterise the resultant process of political and economic transition: low or even decreasing life expectancy (especially for men) and higher prevalences of alcoholis...

A persistent problem. Traditional gender roles hold back female scientists.

Women hold less than 15% of the full professorships in Europe, even though more than half of the European student population is female (Eu, 2006). in the light of this, there are contrasting views about the future of women in academic research. Some analysts perceive an intractable gender gap at the higher levels of academia owing to the lower success rate of women at every step up the career l...

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