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Article: Medicine needs hybrid embryos, scientists say
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- April 5, 2007
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A letter delivered today to Tony Blair from 223 medical research
charities warns that a ban on the creation of "chimera" embryos will
hamper efforts to develop effective treatments for many incurable
conditions. Scientists have proposed taking DNA from human skin cells
and merging it with the cytoplasm - the non-nucleus part of the cell -
of the unfertilised egg of a rabbit or cow.
They want to create stem cells from cloned embryos for studying
conditions such as Parkin-son's disease and motor neurone disease.
However, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has
postponed a decision on awarding licences until the Government
clarifies its threat to ban such research.
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