Dolly firm to breed GM cows
PPL Therapeutics, the UK firm that has exclusive rights to the 'cloning' technique used to create Dolly the sheep, is to use the cell nuclear transfer technology to produce genetically modified cattle. In a joint venture with New Zealand company Celentis, PPL hope to breed cows to produce a human...
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Parliament and the future of embryo research
by Juliet Tizzard
I write this commentary on the eve of an important vote in the British Parliament. Tomorrow, members of the House of Commons will decide upon the future of embryo stem cell research. We don't know what the outcome of tomorrow's vote will be. But if the regulations fail, it will...