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Science 24 January 1997:
Vol. 275. no. 5299, pp. 472 - 0
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5299.472
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News & Comment

Eliot Marshall

News that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has cut off funding for Mark Hughes, a geneticist who pioneered a technique for screening for mutations in the DNA of a single cell, has dismayed Hughes's colleagues. NIH says Hughes used federal funds to conduct tests on eight-cell human embryos, in contravention of a congressional ban on such activities. Hughes's colleagues say the incident will drive more embryology research into private clinics, where it is unregulated.

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