After speaking at the Progress Educational Trust event 'Fertility Frontiers: What Is a 'Permitted' Embryo in Law?', Julian Hitchcock of counsel, Bristows LLP further discusses permitted embryos and whether it should be lawful to intervene in the hereditable transmission of human genomes, and, if so, on what terms and on whose authority. Read his full article here...
The legality of permitting embryos
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
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