US faces science brain drain after Europe backs stem cell funding
http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,,1828069,00.html
=B7 Disillusioned researchers could move to UK
=B7 Debate divides members but ends in compromise
Nicholas Watt in Brussels
Tuesday July 25, 2006
The Guardian
The United States is risking a "brain drain", in which its scientists
will flock across the Atlantic, after the EU reached a "historic" deal
yesterday on human embryonic stem cells.
A week after George Bush limited federal funds for the highly sensitive
area, the EU warned Washington that "disillusioned" US scientists will
want to make the most of Europe's more liberal rules.
Lord Sainsbury, Britain's science minister, said: "There are a group of
American scientists who are very disillusioned. In this field we have
seen US scientists coming to the UK. If the US continues to take this
very negative position I think within this field of regenerative
medicine we will see scientists come from America and from other parts
of the world, who would have gone to America, to the UK instead."
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