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Scientific groups angry at loss of Elizabeth Blackburn from group considering stem cells | By Maria Anderson
US President George W. Bush dismissed two members of his President's Council on Bioethics last Friday afternoon in a move that has been dubbed a “very ill-advised decision” by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) president Bettie Sue Masters.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040303/04
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