Animal testing
Policy Consultation 23 March 2005
Comment from the Medical Research Council and Animal Defenders International.
Autism
Policy Consultation 17 March 2005
Comments from the Medical Research Council and the National Autistic Society
Stroke treatment
Policy Consultation 28 January 2005
Comment from the Medical Research Council and the Stroke Association.
Animal testing
Policy Consultation 8 September 2004
Comment from the Home Office, National Anti Vivisection Society
Medical Research Council: Welcome
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Forum Brief: Animal testing
Policy Consultation 21 January 2003
Animal experiments remain essential for medical advances, human welfare, and protection of the environment, the government said yesterday.
Forum Brief: Science Strategy
Policy Consultation 23 July 2002
The government has launched a coordinated drive to boost Britain's science base.
Forum Brief: SR2002 - Science sector response
Policy Consultation 16 July 2002
Gordon Brown announced yesterday that in partnership with the Wellcome Trust the government will create and fund a new National Centre for Excellence in Science Teaching.
Forum Brief: Sex education lessons
Policy Consultation 14 June 2002
Sex education lessons have failed to reduce the numbers of teenage pregnancies, according to new research.
Forum Brief: Blair's comments on science
Policy Consultation 20 May 2002
Tony Blair has criticised the "anti-science fashion" in Britain, pledging not to let protestors stop medical and economic advances.
Forum Brief: Medical research
Policy Consultation 29 April 2002
Funding for the world's largest study of the role of nature and nurture in health and disease have been announced today.
Forum Brief: Bowel Cancer research
Policy Consultation 1 March 2002
The biggest European study into the causes of bowel cancer, the second biggest cancer killer in the UK, is set to be conducted by scientists in Scotland.
Forum Brief: Stem cell research
Policy Consultation 27 February 2002
Research on human embryonic stem cells should be allowed under strict regulation, according to a report by the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research published today.
Peers back stem cell research
News Article 27 February 2002
Scientists have been given the go ahead to conduct research on clones of human embryos by a House of Lords committee.
