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  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A Medical University of South Carolina scientist working on a project to grow meat in laboratories has been suspended and his lab has been closed.
   The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the school suspended Dr. Vladimir Mironov pending investigation of what an MUSC spokeswoman termed "a series of issues."
   A letter from the university that Mironov provided the newspaper said his suspension was the result "unacceptable behavior" involving a researcher at the University of South Carolina. The letter called it an "act of insubordination."
   University spokeswoman Heather Woolwine says Mironov is on paid leave but refused to comment on the issues behind the suspension.
   Mironov is also one of the primary researchers on a $20 million effort to create human organs from a person's own stem cells.

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