UK team creates human hybrid embryos
Scientists based at the University of Newcastle have announced the successful creation of human hybrid embryos, made by inserting human genetic material into 'hollowed out' cow eggs. Team leader Lyle Armstrong presented the preliminary data at a conference in Israel. The team hopes that such embryos...
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Real Progress - but more to do
by Professor Martin Johnson
Progress (now the Progress Educational Trust) was formed in 1985. Its 10th anniversary was marked at a meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine, when I was kindly invited to give a lecture (1) entitled 'Looking Forward, Looking Back'. Between 1985 and 1995, I personally had moved from being an...
Regulating hybrid embryo research in the UK
by Dr Natasha Hammond-Browning
The issue of creating hybrid embryos for stem cell research was first raised in November 2006 when '...the HFEA received applications from two different research teams for a licence to derive stem cells from human embryos, created from animal eggs instead of human eggs' (1). A public consultation on this...