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Discussion Meetings@EMBL Meetings 2000
30 November 2000
Intellectual property rights and patenting: what role do they play in science?
Birgit Kerber

References
World Intellectual Property Organization
Intellectual Property Rights and Research Tools in Molecular Biology
United States Patent and Trademark Office
European Patent Office

26 October 2000
Therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning: can we draw a line between good and bad?
Katrin Weigmann

References
Stem cell research: medical progress with responsibility
Reprogenetics: Third millennium speculation. [Lee M. Silver, EMBO Reports]

21 September 2000
Bioterrorism: facts and fiction
Freddy Frischknecht

References
The Looming Threat of Bioterrorism [D.A. Henderson, Science, 283, 1279-82 1999]
New Scientist
Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies

3 August 2000
Free will in the light of neurobiology
Berthold Rutz

References
The neurobiology of cognition [M. James and W.T. Newsome, Nature, 402, Suppl. 2 Dec. 1999]
Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex [M.L. Platt and P.W. Glimcher, Nature, 400 2000]
Monkeys play the odds [M. J. Nichols and W.T. Newsome, Nature, 400 2000]

6 July 2000
Thou shalt not clone thyself: Do we need an eleventh commandment?
Giuseppe Testa

Reference
Cloning: Pathways to a Pluripotent Future [Anne McLaren, Science, 288, 175-178 2000]

25 May 2000
Who wants to live forever?
George Reid

Reference
Intimations of Immortality [J. Harris, Science's Essays on Science and Society 2000]

27 May 2000
Cancer: evolution to revolution
Sarah Sherwood

Reference
HBO Cancer
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