23rd October 2004 Archive

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• Annan lines up against US-inspired human cloning ban

  Balance at UN tilts in favour of therapeutic?

  UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan endorsed therapeutic cloning on Thursday, adding his weight to the UN member countries opposing the US-led campaign to ban all human cloning. A treaty which would ban the cloning of human being has been in the works since 2001, but arguments over extending this to include therapeutic cloning have …

  Science 23 Oct 2004, 10:37

• Met deploys mobile gun scanner in London raid

  But no guns detected

  The Metropolitan Police deployed a weapons scanner in the London Borough of Lewisham last night, as the culmination of a week-long series of anti gun crime operations in the Borough. Friday's swoop also identified a radical new use for the Millenium Dome, although the scanner itself seems not to have detected any guns. A BBC …

  Science 23 Oct 2004, 13:37