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| | The Scientist : Furor over Wilmut prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | As UK scientist Ian Wilmut received Germany's top medical research award Monday in Frankfurt, more than two dozen protestors gathered outside the ceremony was held to voice disapproval, asserting that Wilmut's cloning research would be illegal in Germany. |
 | | Wilmut, whose groundbreaking research at Scotland's Roslin Institute led to the birth of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, was also the target of headline-generating criticism from politicians, church groups, a major medical organization and even, indirectly, Germany's leading research funding organization, the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
 | | Wilmut's critics in Germany said such research would be illegal in their country, noting that nearly half the €100,000 prize money came from the federal government. |
| www.the-scientist.com /news/20050315/01 (688 words) |
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