Therapeutic cloning may soon be legal in UK
A UK government panel is expected to give therapeutic cloning research the go-ahead when it publishes its findings in May, according to a report in the Sunday Times newspaper. The panel, headed by the government's chief medical officer Liam Donaldson, was asked to investigate the scientific, ethical and legal issues...
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National genetic screening programmes are needed
by Dr John Gillott
Press coverage of a report recently published by the Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing on the subject of Prenatal Genetic Testing suggests that a radically new service is being proposed, involving the 'mass genetic testing of pregnant women' with the attendant risk of a slippery slope towards the creation of...