THE AGENDA

ﾩ CORBIS

CLONING IN IRAN ﾻ Last month, Tehran's Royan Institute announced that it had cloned a sheep. From September 13-15, the institute will host its annual conferences on reproductive biomedicine and stem cell biology. For more information, see www.royaninstitute.org. And for columnist Glenn McGee's take on the current state of cloning ethics, see page 26.

CLINICAL TRIALS IN INDIA ﾻ In April, McGee wrote about the ethics of clinical trials in India. Those, and trials in China, along with drug registration in both countries, will be the subject of a Drug Information Association conference in Princeton, New Jersey on September 18 and 19. For more, see http://tinyurl.com/hu7zr.

SCIENCE AND POLITICS ﾻ In next month's issue, Alison McCook will take an in-depth look at the contentious relationship between science and politics, as the US gears up for midterm elections. For a sneak peek of this issues she'll be writing on, head to Notre Dame for a conference on commerce and the politics of science: http://tinyurl.com/pbyo6.

MODERN MENDELS ﾻ On September 15, Chicago's Field Museum will open an exhibition on Gregor Mendel, featuring most of Mendel's remaining scientific instruments and papers. The exhibit will feature displays on James Watson, Francis Crick, and Thomas Morgan, as well as some modern Mendels working in crop cultivation, mapping genomes and solving new mysteries of heredity. After April 1, the exhibit moves around the US. For more, see http://tinyurl.com/eowtw.