A UK High Court judge ruled last week, reversing an earlier decision, that a British woman who entered a surrogacy arrangement and bore twins intended to be raised by an American couple must go back to the US to pursue her custody battle. In February, the woman, who has no...
US President George W Bush has urged the Senate to pass a bill that would ban human cloning in its entirety. His White House speech, in front of 175 known cloning opponents last Wednesday, is said to be his 'most forceful yet' in support of an anti-cloning bill, sponsored by...
Ruth Deech, former Chair of the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), has said that fertility clinics ought to pay towards the costs of twins and triplets born as a result of fertility treatments. She stated that financial penalties on clinics were necessary to 'curb practices in the multimillion-pound...
An American lesbian couple have become the parents of children that have been labelled as the world's first 'designer deaf children', provoking criticism from many directions. Sharon Duchesneau and Candace McCullogh, who are both deaf themselves, have a five-year old daughter and a five-month old son, Gauvin. Both of the...
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...
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The President versus the scientists
by Dr Jess Buxton
As we report in this week's BioNews, the debate in the US over therapeutic cloning research is heating up. President Bush has delivered an impassioned speech in which he called for a total ban on any form of human cloning, including the use of cloned early embryo cells to develop...