Watchdog backs embryo research

The Independent - London;  September 5, 2007 ;     67 words ......the Government's fertility watchdog today. Scientists believe hybrid embryo research is vital in the fight against cancer and Alzheimer's. But religious...consultation found that a majority of people were "at ease" with hybrid embryo research.

Moratoriums on embryo research.

The Hastings Center Report;  June 1, 1988 ;     700+ words ...Moratoriums on Embryo Research In 1985 the U.S. Congress imposed...National Institutes of Health for embryo research, which had the practical effect...on such key issues as whether embryo research should be permitted; if allowed...

Hybrid embryo research given go-ahead by MPs

The Independent - London;  May 20, 2008 ;     665 words ......the medical benefits of hybrid embryo research were based on "exaggeration...Health minister, said that hybrid embryo research offered a "valuable resource...Opposition voted against a ban on hybrid embryo research in last night's free votes...

Ethics Board to Review Cloning's Implications; Human Embryo Research to Be...

The Washington Post;  February 25, 1997 ;     700+ words ......federal policies relating to human embryo research should be reconsidered in the light...consider whether privately funded human embryo research in the United States -- which today...first to look at the issue of human embryo research, though it may be the first to have...

Hybrid embryo research 'will get go-ahead'

Evening Standard - London;  September 5, 2007 ;     181 words ...REGULATORS were today poised to give the go-ahead to hybrid embryo research. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority will this afternoon announce its decision on whether to license research, which...

Anger over 'hybrid' embryo ban.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  April 5, 2007 ;     557 words ......plans to reform the law governing embryo research. But a section calling for an outright...patient organisations calling for hybrid embryo research to be allowed. It talked of growing...body which regulates and licences embryo research. The HFEA was wrong to postpone its...

AT THIS stage the Government needs all the support it can get and from...

Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  October 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Politicians have a duty to stop embryo research AT THIS stage the Government needs...in this country: pass a law banning embryo research. If it won't do it, then Fine Gael...advance for such a stance. A law banning embryo research has been made necessary by the extraordinary...

Hybrid Embryo Research Endorsed

The Washington Post;  May 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ......in the House of Commons of the first major revisions to embryo research laws in a generation, failed overwhelmingly on a vote of...virtually all their genetic material removed, as well as other hybrid embryo processes for stem cell research. Scientists say the embryos...

Symbolic issues in embryo research.

The Hastings Center Report;  January 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...The embryo research controversy is a good reminder of...recent report of the NIH's Human Embryo Research Panel shows, to demonstrate this respect they favor restrictions on how embryo research is conducted - for example, prohibiting...

The business of research. (human embryo research)

The Hastings Center Report;  January 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...The report of the Human Embryo Research Panel issued in September...year de facto moratorium on embryo research in the United States. We are...misleading impression that all embryo research falling under the guidelines...

UK scientists celebrate hybrid embryo research move

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  September 6, 2007 ;     461 words ......message to the government is also clear - that they should stop trying to use legislation to block some forms of hybrid embryo research and instead allow the HFEA to consider each application on its merits." But Anthony Ozimic, secretary of pro...

Federal Funding of Human Embryo Research at Issue

NPR All Things Considered;  February 5, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Although scientists claim that human embryo research is necessary to cure certain infertility...Reporter: Any discussion of human embryo research is certain to evoke passionate arguments...federal money from being spent on embryo research. Rep. JAY DICKEY (R-AR): The basic...

Showdown over plan to allow embryo research; Government faces election...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 9, 2006 ;     700+ words ......It includes a recommendation that embryo research be allowed. So far, the Government...If the Government is opposed to embryo research, why doesn't it say so? 'Its silence...is paving the way for destructive embryo research and will do anything to avoid debate...

SA: Plans to ban cloning and regulate embryo research in SA

AAP General News (Australia);  February 20, 2003 ;     191 words ......Plans to ban cloning and regulate embryo research in SA ADELAIDE, Feb 20 AAP - The South...to ban human cloning and regulate embryo research in an attempt to bring the state into...NHMRC) would be required to license embryo research and the SA Council on Reproductive...

Seeking the wonder in a mote of dust. (panel recommends funding of...

U.S. News & World Report;  October 3, 1994 ;     631 words ......government fund some kinds of human embryo research--the first step toward allowing scientists...parents' consent, go to research. If embryo research goes forward, doctors will have a...outraged some people, who compare embryo research to Nazi doctors' experiments on concentration...