The UK House of Lords has upheld a Court of Appeal ruling that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 1990 does regulate cloned embryos. In November 2001, the ProLife Alliance had successfully argued in the High Court that the Act did not apply, meaning that cloning - both therapeutic and...
A couple from Melbourne, Australia, are to be allowed to use IVF in conjunction with genetic screening and tissue typing in order to have a baby who can donate cells from its umbilical cord to save a sibling with a terminal disease. The ethics committee of the Epworth Hospital in...
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...
A new study by US researchers suggests that gene therapy could be used to treat Huntington's disease (HD), a severe inherited brain disorder. Scientists at the University of Iowa have used a new technique to 'silence' the gene that makes the protein involved in HD in laboratory-grown human cells. 'When...
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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...