Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 19 March 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5409, p. 1849
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5409.1849a
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Letters

This Week's Letters

A group of 73 scientists, 67 of them Nobel laureates, offer support for National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus's decision to go forward with stem cell research. "We join with other scientific organizations and patient groups in our belief that [the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's] current position is both laudable and forward-thinking. It succeeds in protecting the sanctity of human life without impeding biomedical research that could be profoundly important to the understanding and treatment of human disease." The letter is in reaction to a recent statement signed by 70 members of Congress urging the U.S. government to ban research on stem cells obtained from human embryos. Chinese science and technology are examined. And the question of whether monkeys can count like humans is explored.

Letters in This Issue

space space
[Letter] Science Over Politics
Robert P. Lanza, Kenneth J. Arrow, Julius Axelrod, David Baltimore, Baruj Benacerraf, Konrad E. Bloch, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Herbert C. Brown, Michael S. Brown, Jose B. Cibelli, Stanley Cohen, Leon N. Cooper, E. J. Corey, Reneto Dulbecco, Edmond H. Fischer, Val L. Fitch, Jerome I. Friedman, Milton Friedman, Robert F. Furchgott, Murray Gell-Mann, Donald A. Glaser, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Walter Gilbert, Joseph L. Goldstein, Stephen Jay Gould, Roger Guillemin, Herbert A. Hauptman, Dudley Herschbach, Roald Hoffman, Leroy Hood, David H. Hubel, Jerome Karle, Lawrence R. Klein, Walter Kohn, Arthur Kornberg, Edwin G. Krebs, Leon M. Lederman, Joshua Lederberg, David M. Lee, Robert E. Lucas Jr., Rudolph A. Marcus, R. Bruce Merrifield, Merton H. Miller, Franco Modigliani, Mario J. Molina, Kary Mullis, Ferid Murad, Joseph E. Murray, Daniel Nathans, Marshall W. Nirenberg, Douglas C. North, George A. Olah, George E. Palade, Martin J. Perl, Norman F. Ramsey, Burton Richter, Richard J. Roberts, James M. Robl, Paul A. Samuelson, Melvin Schwartz, Phillip A. Sharp, Richard E. Smalley, Hamilton O. Smith, Robert M. Solow, Henry Taube, Susumu Tonegawa, James D. Watson, Steven Weinberg, Thomas H. Weller, Michael D. West, Eric F. Wieschaus, Torsten N. Wiesel, Robert W. Wilson,
[Letter] Basic Research In China
Shuguang Zhang
[Letter] Free Electrons?
John Michael Williams
[Letter] Monkey Numeration
Philip L. Stocklin Response Elizabeth M. Brannon and Herbert S. Terrace
[Letter] Corrections and Clarifications


How to Submit a Letter to the Editor




To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)