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Stem cell technology has developed rapidly and there are many exciting clinical benefits. these currently all come from ethically acceptable 'adult' stem cells. The ethics of using embryonic stem cells are considered.

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Umbilical cord blood stem cells - we told you so (triple helix - spring 2010)

In January 2008 CMF welcomed a new bill which encouraged the donation at childbirth of umbilical cord blood and its storage for public use, (1) and called on the government to invest more actively in developing the NHS cord stem cell bank. MP David Burrowes' Umbilical Cord Blood (Donation) Bill (2)...
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Umbilical cord stem cell breakthrough

18/1/2010 For two years CMF has advocated the collection of umbilical cord blood as a source for stem cells. It is ethically uncontroversial and relatively easy to perform. In an exciting development, stem cells from umbilical cord blood have again been demonstrated in humans to have real therapeutic promise . A new scientific technique promises to make...
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Another breakthrough for adult stem cells

20/10/2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8311055.stm

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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Stem cells - The truth (gradually) comes out (triple helix - spring 2009)

Almost ten years ago, after the 1999 Donaldson Report recommended allowing scientists to clone human embryos for stem cell research using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), Triple Helix called the research 'unethical and unnecessary' and sounded a strong note of caution. We said that the...
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British breakthrough with 'ethical' stem cells

3/3/2009 (published: BBC News) 'Ethical' stem cell creation hope 1 March 'A UK and Canadian team have manipulated human skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells without using viruses - making them safer for use in humans.' BBC News
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Hybrids won't work anyway

9/2/2009 From January 2007 onwards scientists and the biotechnology industry were insisting that because of a shortage of human ova as a source of human embryonic stem cells, Britain should legalise the production of animal-human hybrids. Despite speeches such as the almost prophetic one of Lord Tombs saying that the proposals were 'unproven, unnecessary...
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Cardinal Keith O'Brien comments on the HFE Bill

29/10/2008 An open letter to Gordon Brown from Cardinal Keith O'Brien, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, has had wide coverage in the media: STV News.Scotsman The Press Assocation BBC The Telegraph The Herald Independent Catholic News
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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...
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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...
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