The authors present an engaging account of the history, legacy and future of the 14-day rule, showing how effective regulation and scientific progress depends on fostering trust through sociological examination, engagement, and science communication...
Heralding the technology behind SCBEMs as 'one of the 21st century's most dramatic scientific developments', Professor Emily Jackson's lecture was packed with fascinating legal and ethical commentary...
The third session of the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference featured Professor Sir Ian Wilmut in conversation with Roger Highfield, former Telegraph science editor and now Director of External Affairs for the Science Museum Group...
A controversial Italian fertility doctor has been arrested after being accused of taking a woman's eggs without her consent...
As BioNews 763 reported recently, Advocate General Cruz Villalón has advised the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that human parthenotes are not human embryos. The fact that he had to do so raises serious concerns about the ability of Europe's leading court to interpret bioethical legislation and challenges the authority of one of its most notorious cases....
In November the case of Brüstle v Greenpeace was remitted to the German Federal High Court. How would a national court interpret the controversial ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union which held that patent rights could not be granted in the EU for the use of any entity 'capable of commencing the process of development of a human being'?...
1 October 2009 marked the second and major phase of the coming into force of the amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 1990 made by the HFE Act 2008. The first phase, in April 2009, concerned parenthood provisions and the third and final phase (expected April 2010), will affect parental orders in surrogacy arrangements. Even from a legal perspective it is unfortunate and rather baffling that these changes have been brought about by amending the original legislation...
The Australian state of Queensland has introduced legislation that makes cloning a human embryo lawful. The 'Research Involving Human Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning Amendment Bill 2007', which mirrors federal legislation and also that which was approved in Victoria and New South Wales, was passed by...
Western Australia has passed legislation that provides for the cloning of human embryos in stem cell research. The bill was passed in a conscience vote held in Australia's largest state's Lower House by 26 votes to 16 and will now be debated in the Upper House before...
A vote will take place this week in the US state of Missouri on proposed changes the State's constitution to allow all kinds of stem cell research to take place. The Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative - also known as Amendment 2 - will permit so-called therapeutic...
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