(Telegraph-UK) Baroness Greenfield, the eminent neurobiologist and the director of the Royal Institution, the oldest independent research body in Great Britain, said that she was becoming increasingly "distressed" by the British boycott of Israeli academics: "The obvious implication of the boycott is that if this is stopping medical research from being propagated, then the development of treatments and people's lives could be affected. If it continues it will harm people in every sphere, but in medical research lives are potentially at risk." The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization, also said that it would become concerned if the shunning of work by Israeli academics, which began in April, continued. An IARC spokesman confirmed that the agency collaborated with Israeli researchers, and gave a warning that vital research could be held up "if this boycott were to expand in reach."
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