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Article: MPs vote to let scientists use hybrid embryos
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- May 20, 2008
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SCIENTISTS have been given the green light to use animal-human
hybrid embryos for medical research after MPs yesterday resisted
calls for an outright ban.
After hours of anguished debate over the ethics and science
behind embryonic research, they decided to back the use of hybrid
embryos in the search for medical cures and greater understanding of
serious illnesses.
A proposed ban was voted down by 336 to 176, as the substantive
part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill sailed through
the Commons.
It will make Britain one of the few countries that regulates and
sanctions the use of hybrid or "admix" embryos, and could also
provide a boost to the bioscience industry in research ...