The United States House of Representatives last week passed a bill to ban all forms of human cloning - therapeutic as well as reproductive. The bill would also prevent the importing of any cell-based treatments created abroad from cloned human embryos. After six hours of debate, the first debate of its...
Scientists in Israel have reported success in growing human heart cells in the laboratory. The researchers, based at the Technion Institute of Technology and Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa, say that their successful development of immature heart cells called cardiomyocytes from embryonic stem cells is the first of its kind. The...
Maverick gynaecologist, Severino Antinori, has told a British Sunday newspaper that he plans to start human reproductive cloning trials later this year. According to the report in the Sunday Times, eight British women and their partners have volunteered to take part in the trial. Antinori says he has a total...
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has announced details of its sixth work programme, which will include the development of guidelines for infertility services and for managing genetic risk of familial breast cancer. NICE was set up in 1999 to tackle the 'postcode lottery' whereby drugs and services are...
Paul Fielding, the embryologist being investigated over allegations of losing human embryos, is due to appear in court along with another man thought to be his manager. Fielding was arrested last October after it came to light that a number of human embryos - stored at two clinics where he worked...
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Double standards on cloning democratic process
by Juliet Tizzard
When, earlier this year, UK politicians passed amendments to our embryo research law to permit embryo stem cell research, vocal opponents of the changes had many complaints to make. Aside from their moral misgivings about embryo stem cell and cloning research, a major objection was that parliamentarians were given little...