To qualify for a grant in any of the eligible categories, an applicant must prove financial need and have made, or be the descendant of someone who has made, a significant contribution to scientific research as a research subject without personal benefit, including those who have unwillingly or unknowingly been used in research or contributed biological materials for research.

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Canon Chancellor David Monteith said it was important to remember that as well as being the subject of important historical and scientific research, the skeleton also represented "the mortal remains of a person, an annointed Christian king, " and as such should be treated with dignity.

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The idea was to create a lifelike subject with controllable wings, as part of research testing a hypothesis about male displays of aggression in the species.

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It is not impossible that one or two of these objects may, as research goes on, prove to have come from collections which were the subject of spoliation during the Nazi period.

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Feinerman said his expertise comes from extensive reading on the subject, and attending international conferences on stem cell research, sometimes as many as six a year.

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The central ethical tension in all research involving humans, in America as elsewhere, is a conflict between the best interests of the subject and the gain in knowledge that will benefit later generations.

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Mr Schramm, who, as head of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City pays for a lot of research into the subject, argues that America needs to do more to maintain its entrepreneurial edge.

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