US Senate approves genetic anti-discrimination legislation
The US Senate has unanimously (95-0) approved legislation to prohibit genetic discrimination by employers, insurers and unions. Following thirteen years of effort, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act ('GINA') is finally expected early next week, to breeze through approval in the House of Representatives, which supported the...
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Why UK surrogacy law needs an urgent review
by Natalie Gamble
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill is currently wending its way through Parliament amidst a storm of controversy and debate. An issue which has provoked very little attention is surrogacy, and yet this is where the law most desperately needs reforming. Surrogacy arrangements currently get the raw end of...
Scientists, hybrid embryos and the media
by Fiona Fox
Should scientists enter the media fray on the most controversial aspects of stem cell research when the row is clearly about much more than the science? This is a question that many in the scientific community have raised over the past year in relation to the furore over human-animal hybrid...