"The company's human resources director called us in a panic, " recalls Christine Fahlund, a senior financial planner at T.

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The brain imaging technology is being developed for a US-led effort to map the human brain called the Human Connectome Project.

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There is no law against private stem cell research in the US, but Mr Bush has called for an international United Nations ban on all human cloning, prompting ire from a number of countries which allow the process under regulated conditions for research purposes.

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