Genes and society centre launched
A new UK centre for research into the social implications of genetic advances was officially launched on March 3. The Egenis (Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Genomics in Society) Centre, based at the University of Exeter, aims to study 'the meaning and social implications of contemporary genomic science...
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Never mind the law on cloning
by Juliet Tizzard
This week's BioNews reports on the defeat, in the House of Lords, of a challenge to the UK's law on human cloning. The ProLife Alliance , which launched the challenge, sought to prevent research on cloned embryos from taking place in the UK by demonstrating that the wording of the Human...