The U.S. government should keep a close eye on the new field of synthetic biology, says a report by the president's bioethics commission, which doesn't think new regulations are needed. A plan to use €1.4 billion in unused 2010 budget funds to fill a gap in 2012-13 caused by the ballooning costs of the ITER fusion reactor project in France has fallen apart. The ongoing dispute between the directly elected European Parliament and its 27 member states could raise the ultimate cost of the massive project and push it further behind schedule.
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