Debates on human cloning in the US Senate, originally scheduled to take place in February or March and, later, tentatively scheduled for this week, now seem certain not to take place in the near future. The sponsors of both of the bills before the Senate - one proposing a ban on...
Scientists have told delegates at an international biotechnology conference in Toronto, Canada, that fewer than half of the embryonic stem cell lines authorised for use by President Bush last summer will 'turn out to be viable in practice'. President Bush gave permission for American government-funded American researchers to use stem...
Scientists from the Cancer Genome Project (CGP) at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, have discovered that a mutation in a single gene - called BRAF - is a common element in approximately 70 per cent of malignant skin cancers. The mutation is similar to another that is known to...
Following a 'long and controversial debate', the Italian Government has approved a draft law stating, among other things, that people who use assisted reproduction technologies in Italy will not be allowed to use donor sperm, eggs or embryos, and that embryo research will be prohibited. Embryos will only be able...
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Cloning confusion in the US
by Dr Jess Buxton
In March of this year, scientists in the UK were finally given the go-ahead to begin research aimed at developing new disease treatments using cells extracted from early human embryos à therapeutic cloning. It took nearly three years of parliamentary and public debate to put the necessary regulatory framework in place...