The European Commission has drawn criticism for its decision to carry on funding controversial embryo research from the EU's budget.
Brussels presented details about programmes that will be financed from the bloc's €70 million package for 2007-2013 on Wednesday (21 September).
Prior to the publication of the outline, a group of MEPs pressed the commission to exclude embryo and embryonic stem cell research from the scope of community spending.
Instead, they argued, it should ...
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