Referring to a recent change made to the charter of the Federal Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections, the American Infertility Association (AIA) has accused the Bush administration of 'shifting the landscape of reproductive rights'. The panel's charter was reworked to include the word 'embryos', meaning that it states...
Plans to expand the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, UK, have finally been given the go-ahead. The new laboratories will provide facilities for academic and industry scientists to use knowledge gained from the Human Genome Project in medical research. The site, based in Hinxton, is already home to the...
Last week, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, head of the Family Division of the UK's High Court, made a statement about the case of a white woman who gave birth to mixed-race twins after a mistake at an IVF clinic earlier this year. The clinic at the centre of the row over...
Delegates of a legal committee of the United Nation's General Assembly have agreed to delay, until September 2003, the drafting of an international treaty that would ban human reproductive cloning. In September this year, the committee began to draft a UN resolution to ban human reproductive cloning. This was a...
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Debating genetic susceptibility tests
by Juliet Tizzard
During 2002, the issue of over the counter genetic susceptibility tests has been in and out of the news. Back in March, we reported on a campaign to stop one company selling genetic susceptibility tests through a high street chain of shops. Then over the summer, the government advisory group...