Britain to decide on human-animal embryo research
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British regulators will decide on Wednesday whether to permit the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research into illnesses such as Parkinson's, Motor Neurone Disease and Alzheimer's.
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The prospect of using human embryonic stem cells to treat disease appears a small step closer as the result of two new experiments with the cells, which are mired in political controversy because they are derived from human embryos.
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Harvard researchers want to be the first in the United States to produce cloned human embryos for disease research.
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The government's fertility regulator today agreed in principle that scientists should be allowed to create human-animal embryos for medical research.
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In January 2001, the British Parliament passed a bill that authorized government funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
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Screening human embryos for a rare genetic condition leading to bowel cancer in order to select embryos lacking the pre-disposition has been given the go-ahead in the UK.
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The creator of Dolly the sheep is due  to be given permission to clone human embryos for medical research.
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The UK's fertility regulator is set to rule that stem cell medics can recruit women to donate eggs for research.
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British authorities ruled Wednesday that research using animal eggs to create human stem cells could go forward in principle.
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The government is looking into calls to lift a ban on creating embryos from dying children to aid key research.
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Biological heart pacemakers made from human embryo cells have been successfully tested in pigs, raising the possibility that tissue transplants could in future replace electronic pacemakers.
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Science & environment: Scientists create human embryos in procedure to try to fight serious inherited diseases
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Britain&#39;s leading scientists today urge the United Nations to ban cloning of babies but leave open the door for cloning of embryo stem cells as treatments for so-far incurable illnesses.
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UK research organisations are expected to back scientific experiments on monkeys after an 18-month review.
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Hybrid animal-human embryos created for medical research should be viewed as human and permitted to develop into children, Roman Catholic bishops have urged the British parliament.
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Britain's leading scientific institution  said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a  possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty  banning human cloning. The London-based Royal Society is  stepping up its drive to push the United Nations to ban the  cloning of babies, but to make no ruling on using the  technology for medical research, or therapeutic cloning, at its  59th General Session in October. The 191-nation U.N. General  Assembly is divided over whether to allow therapeutic cloning  to continue or to adopt a broad cloning ban championed by the  Bush administration and Costa Rica with strong backing from the  U.S. anti-abortion movement and many predominantly Roman  Catholic nations.
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Britain&#39;s fertility regulator decided in principle Wednesday to allow scientists to create human-animal hybrid embryos for research purposes.