Scientists plea on hybrid embryos
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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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Britain&#39;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.
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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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Stem cells from human embryos are seen as the future of medicine, but a major ethical question surrounds the research: Should federally funded scientists be allowed to extract the cells from embryos, a process which destroys them? Current U.S. laws clearly say &ldquo;no.&rdquo;  Ian Wilmut, who made history when he cloned  Dolly the sheep in 1996, is now calling on scientists to inject human DNA into animal egg cells as a workaround to ethical and legal roadblocks. His commentary appears in Nature Reports Stem Cells, an online stem cell resource created by the journal Nature. ...
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British regulators said Thursday they have approved two proposals for research using human embryos derived from animal eggs.
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Harvard University scientists have asked the university's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos for disease research, potentially becoming the first researchers in the nation to wade into a divisive area of study that has become a presidential campaign issue.
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British scientists have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and one man, a procedure that could potentially prevent conditions including epilepsy, diabetes and heart failure
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Scientists believe they have made an IVF breakthrough by creating a human embryo with three separate parents.
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Scientists at a small biotechnology company say they have used cloning to create human embryos from the skin cells of two men.
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Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released for Sunday.
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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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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.
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Leading scientists make final plea for the right to create the first animal-human embryos to help advance understanding of genetic diseases.
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Researchers who once dismissed another team's cloning method used the disputed process to create monkey embryos. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Making human-animal embryos for  scientific experiments should be allowed because of the  benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a  report released for Sunday.
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Human egg cells can be tweaked to give rise to valued stem cells that match the tissue types of many different groups of people, U.S. and Russian researchers reported on Wednesday.
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"The fear is that (scientists) are trying to breed a human with some other creature"  British authorities decided Wednesday to permit research that uses animal eggs to create human stem cells - studies experts say are critical to unlocking treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other ... via The South Mississippi Sun Herald