British scientists from three separate research centres have announced their intention to submit simultaneous proposals to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) later this month seeking a licence to create human-animal chimeras. The researchers - based in London, Newcastle and Edinburgh - are seeking approval to carry out...
Legislation authorising research on human embryonic stem (ES) cells was passed by both the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives last week. The state Senate approved the bill by an overwhelming 35-2 votes on Wednesday, then the state House approved its version by 117-37 votes the following day...
Robert Travaglini, President of the Senate in the US state of Massachusetts, has introduced a new bill that would support the development of embryonic stem (ES) cell research in the state. While it does not provide for state funding of such, he claims that the bill would show that Massachusetts...
The scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep has been given permission to use the same technique to clone human embryos for medical research into stem cells. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has granted a licence to the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh to use the cell nucleus replacement (CNR...
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has given a Newcastle team permission to create human embryos that are clones of patients. The team, which applied for the licence in June, is licensed use the embryos to make embryonic stem cells for research purposes. They plan to investigate diabetes...
On March 13, in possibly one of the shoddiest legal judgements this country will ever read, the Lords ruled against the ProLife Alliance. Human cloning has now been formally legalised for the first time in the Western World, thanks to an interpretative stratagem, which completely bypasses the need for a...
Because the UK House of Lords' decision in 'R (on the application of Quintavalle) v Secretary of State for Health' simply confirms that the law regulating the production of cloned embryos is as the Government had assumed it to be before the Pro-Life Alliance began its legal challenge in the...
The UK House of Lords has agreed to hear an appeal from the ProLife Alliance. In January, the UK Court of Appeal overturned a High Court ruling that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 1990 did not regulate cloned embryos. Last year, the ProLife Alliance had successfully argued that...
The Roslin Institute, the Scottish research centre that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1997, announced last week that it will request a licence to conduct research on human embryos from the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). The scientists at the institute intend to focus their research on finding...
US President George W Bush immediately condemned last week's announcement by a Massachusetts biotechnology company that it had created the world's first cloned human embryo, saying that the breakthrough was 'morally wrong' and that 'we should not as a society grow life to destroy it'. The White House called for...
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