BRUSSELS, Belgium - Just days after the Bush veto on further funding for embryonic stem cell research, researchers have avoided the same fate in Europe - but only by a hairsbreadth. European Union science ministers agreed by a slender margin on July 21 to continue funding such research beginning in 2007, subject to tight national controls. (BioWorld International)

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Just days after the Bush veto on further funding for embryonic stem cell research, researchers have avoided the same fate in Europe - but only by a hairsbreadth. European Union science ministers agreed by a slender margin on July 21 to continue funding such research beginning in 2007, subject to tight national controls. (BioWorld International)