Elena CattaneoItalian researcher Elena Cattaneo has written previously on this site about the lack of transparent, contestable funding for science in Italy. A new book by Armando Massarenti, Staminalia: Le Cellule Etiche e i Nemici Della Ricerca
(Staminalia: Ethical Cells and the Enemies Of Research), picks up on
this issue - describing the political and ethical disputes surrounding stem
cell research in Italy, and the way science has sometimes been misrepresented. Cattaneo, reviewing this book in Nature, writes:
