UK Scientists Allowed Clone Human Embryos
13th Sep 05
British scientists have been granted permission to clone human embryos for medical research in what is thought to be the first such licence given in Europe. Researchers at the University of Newcastle in northern England will be allowed to create embryos as a source of stem cells to cure diseases after being given permission by the government's regulator, a spokeswoman for the university said.
Britain’s reproduction regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), gave permission to proceed. The scientists said they plan to duplicate early-stage embryos and extract stem cells from them.
The embryos will be destroyed before they are 14 days old and will never be allowed to develop beyond a cluster of cells. Irish Times. August 11....
HFEA and CAHR — Worries on Embryo Selection
13th Sep 05
According to Herman Kelly, editor of the Irish Catholic, the decision of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in the UK to allow a couple from Northern Ireland to create, select and reject human embryos in order to get a genetic match for their child, “is to be abhorred”.
He pointed out that this decision means that in the space of a few decades “we have...
170,000 Embryo Deaths Each Year in USA After IVF
13th Sep 05
A study in the current issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility, the official journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, boasts that artificial fertility techniques have become more effective over the years.
The author of the study, Dr. James P. Toner, of...