Decision due on human-animal embryos
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Britain&#39;s fertility regulator was to decide Wednesday whether to allow scientists to create human-animal hybrid embryos for research purposes, as experts downplayed ethical concerns.
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Stem cells have been used to save mice embryos from a lethal heart defect.
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Leading scientists have urged peers not to block the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for research.
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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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Experts are set to make a significant announcement on the future of stem cell research  in Scotland.
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Science & environment: Hopes boosted by experiments showing that human embryonic stem cells could be turned into a variety of brain cells
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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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Scientists say they have created a stem cell line from a human embryo that had stopped developing naturally, and so was considered dead. Using such embryos might ease ethical concerns about creating such cells, they suggested.
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Britain's fertility regulator said Thursday it would allow scientists to create human-animal hybrid embryos for research.
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In a bid to sidestep the ethical debate over the use of human embryos in medical research, scientists have developed a way to derive viable stem cell lines without harming the embryo.
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Public support for the work The UK's fertility regulator is expected to give its seal of approval to research on human-animal hybrids in the UK. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) published its consultation on the proposed draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill yesterday, in which it said most people consulted were at ease with the creation of hybrid embryos.â¦
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Britain is considering whether to permit research using animal eggs to create human stem cells &#151; a process that tests the ethical boundaries of cutting-edge scientific research.
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NEW YORK  - A new study provides "reassuring" evidence that babies born from in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) -- in which a cell or two are removed from the developing embryo to screen for genetic problems -- are not at increased risk of birth defects.
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Capping a months-long scientific and ethics review, British regulators said yesterday that they are prepared to allow the creation of embryos that are part human and part animal for use in medical experiments.
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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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A growing number of couples are screening embryos to detect a predisposition to cancers that may or may not develop later in life.
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If verified, the research could shake up the debate over human embryo research that has divided the country for the past six years.