The Campaign Against Human Genetic Engineering (CAHGE) held a press conference in London last week, at which organiser David King called for the rallying of 'public and political opposition to human cloning and human germline engineering'. At the briefing, which was only reported in the Guardian newspaper, King said that...
US firm Celera Genomics, which has almost finished its version of the entire human genome, is to join forces with Geron Corporation to investigate early human embryo development. 'The collaboration is going to produce the genetic blueprint used by Mother Nature to build a human body, cell by cell, tissue...
A working group set up to advise the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the regulation of human gene therapy trials called for a greater involvement of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), reports last week's Nature. The conduct of gene therapy trials in the US has been subject...
The public and private groups sequencing the human genome may agree to publish their data at the same time, if negotiations currently underway are successful. But issues over access to the published data, publishing dates and credits remain, according to reports in the US media last week. The Los Angeles...
A man who was told his chances of fathering a child were a billion to one was celebrating the birth of his daughter last week. John Buckland and his wife Laura underwent in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment at the Bristol University Centre for Reproductive Medicine, and their baby Emily was...
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