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ARTICLE | Politics & Policy

U.K. stem cell licensing delayed

January 26, 2001 8:00 AM UTC

Researchers planning to take advantage of Britain's new rules on the use of embryonic stem cells will probably have to wait until the summer as the government sought to delay a legal challenge from ProLife Alliance, an anti-abortion group. The group went to the U.K. High Court on Friday seeking to overturn last Monday's decision by the House of Lords to allow the creation of cloned human embryos for medical research. ...