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As medical technology has advanced, cross-species work has allowed the creation of chimeras, hybrids and cytoplasmic hybrids ('cybrids'). Practical, ethical and legal aspects are considered.
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Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on the ethics of mitochondrial donation - 24/2/2012
The bypassing of inherited mitochondrial abnormalities using donor eggs to create embryos free of the disorder is an advancing area of research (creating so-called 'three parent embryos'). The Nuffield Council has been considering the ethical issues arising from these techniques to prevent the transmission of inherited mitochondrial disorders. The...Peter Saunders blogs on 'three parent' embryos
15/4/2010
The papers this morning (15 April) are full of reports that researchers at Newcastle University have successfully produced 'three parent' embryos as a first step to preventing maternally transmitted mitochondrial disease. There are about 50 different known mitochondrial diseases which are passed on in genes coded by mitochondrial (as opposed to...
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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...
Hybrid hype exposed
5/10/2009
From the moment in early 2007 that the controversial proposal to create animal-human hybrids for embryonic stem cell research was mooted publicly, CMF was opposed on the grounds that the research was not just unethical but also unnecessary. Our CMF file reviewed the whole question. The ethical and scientific debate was lost, and in 2008 Parliament...
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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...Legislation and Morality -
A CMF member has produced this article for his church newsletter: you are welcome to take it and get it out into your church as soon as possible so members can pray and take action. - You may have heard the sad news that amendments to the Government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill on animal-human hybrids, “saviour” siblings, a...
Dr Peter Saunders on HFE Bill
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As Parliament debated all the controversial issues in the 2008 HFE Bill, Peter Saunders gets some Christian principles across.
Duration: 7 mins
Dr Peter Saunders on HFE Bill
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In emotional coverage of animal-human hybrid embryos, Peter Saunders says that their creation crosses an ethical Rubicon.
Duration: 3 mins