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Article: The cost of progress
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2009
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LEADING ARTICLE
last year's debate regarding the morality of animal-human hybrid
embryos research was extensively aired during the passage of the
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill through both houses of
Parliament.
The legislation, as well as the development of hybrid embryos,
was supported by both Gordon Brown and David Cameron. We were told
by some of the most eminent medical scientists and scientific
bodies, from the Wellcome Trust to the Royal Society, that this
research must be allowed to proceed. So the Bill became law and the
researchers readied their funding applications - but so far little
else has happened.
Today we report that two out of the three licence holders who are ...