Sheila McLean - Hybrid research is a compromise we need to make
Published Date:
03 June 2008
THE recent parliamentary vote on amendments to the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act governing assisted reproduction and embryology in the UK is one of the most contentious of recent times.
One of the most controversial items in the bill was the possibility of creating hybrid (or "admixed") embryos by taking the nuclei from animal cells and replacing them with nuclei containing human DNA, resulting in an embryo that is virtually 100 per...
The full article contains 699 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
02 June 2008 8:12 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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