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The technology of cloning continues to develop. These articles consider various aspects, including so-called 'therapeutic' and 'reproductive' cloning.
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human material can be used in hybrid experiments without consent (nucleus - winter 2009)
New rules have given scientists working on stem cell research permission to use human tissue without the express consent of the individual it came from. The legislation, part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, came into force on 1st October and covers material such as blood and...
fertility expert attempts reproductive cloning (nucleus - summer 2009)
A fertility expert claims to have implanted cloned human embryos into the wombs of several women with the intention of producing live offspring. Operating from a secret laboratory thought to be somewhere in the Middle-East, Dr Panayiotis Zavos also claims to have created clones of several dead...
CMF Submission to DoH: HFE Act 2008 regulations - 30/3/2009
Submission from the Christian Medical Fellowship to the Department of Health Consultation on - Four sets of regulations required to implement provisions in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 - March 2009 - 1. Christian Medical Fellowship - The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is an interdenominational organisation, founded in 1949,...Joint statement to the House of Lords re Amendment 92 - 29/10/2008
Please do not vote for Amendment 92 - Express consent must remain as an inviolable human right - Amendment 92 would allow the use of tissue from children, mentally incapacitated adults, and existing stored cells, to be used without explicit consent, to make animal-human hybrids for stem cell research using cloning techniques. This provision was...CMF Statement to House of Lords on consent proposals in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - 28/10/2008
On Wednesday 29th October the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill has its final stage in the House of Lords. The House of Lords is only able to consider changes to the Bill that have been made in the House of Commons. During the Public Bill Committee Stage in the Commons in June, Evan Harris MP inserted an amendment to the Bill (Commons...Labour 'should offer its MPs a free vote on hybrid embryos'
12/3/2008
(published: Daily Mail: 7 March 2008)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=528607&in_page_id=1770
HFE Bill Playlist
20/2/2008
A collection of TV and Radio interviews regarding embryo research, abortion and the HFE Bill currently making its way through Parliament.
http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avid=34&avap=1
http://www.ccfon.org/mediacentre.php?avid=34&avap=1
Green light for hybrid research
Human-animal hybrids - Government must maintain its proposed prohibition (triple helix - spring/summer 2007)
In 2005 the Department of Health consulted widely on the future of the Human Fertilisation Embryology (HFE) Act, and CMF made a substantial Submission.[1] One of the many questions asked concerned creating human hybrid and chimera embryos, which would contain genetic material from both humans and...
CMF File 34 (2007) - Chimeras, hybrids and 'cybrids' (CMF files)
In biotechnology it is now possible to combine elements between organisms of different species. It is also possible to create cloned animals using parts of eggs from one species and nuclear genetic material from another. It is even possible to create novel organisms via interspecies combinations of...