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Hybrid and chimera embryos unethical and unnecessary says CMF (17/05/2007)
Christian Medical Fellowship has called on the Government to think again on the creation of hybrid and chimera embryos. CMF, Britain's largest group of Christian doctors, was responding to...
Human-animal hybrids?
1st February 2007:
On 5 January the science community launched a pre-emptive media strike about the possibility that the Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority (HFEA) might refuse applications for licences to create human-animal hybrids. Because of a shortage of human ova from which to...
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The Church of Scotland has made a dubious mark for itself by approving the cloning of human embryos for research, swimming against the moral tide of the likes of the United Nations General Assembly, The Council of Europe, The World Council of Churches, President Bush and the Roman Catholic Church....
Barely a month goes by without an announcement of a new development in biotechnology. The challenge for Christians is to keep abreast of such advances and respond biblically. In Life in our hands, biological scientist John Bryant and doctor/pastor John Searle attempt to outline some of the issues at stake,...
Cloned embryos not a panacea for treating degenerative diseases, say CMF (20/05/2005)
In the wake of news that British scientists have successfully cloned a human embryo and Korean scientists have developed new stem cell lines from cloned embryos, the Christian Medical Fellowship...
"British Media and Public consistently misled over Stem Cell Research options" says Christian Medical Fellowship (16/02/2005)
In the wake of news that the creator of Dolly the Sheep has been granted a licence to clone human embryos for medical research, the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) today...
CMF describes South Korean human cloning reports as 'grossly overhyped' (17/02/2004)
CMF has described as 'grossly overhyped' recent reports that South Korean scientists have cloned 30 human embryos in order to extract stem cells. In the light of this latest development,...
The boundaries of the cloning saga have shifted yet again as new discoveries - and failures - cast doubt on whether human cloning is actually possible. Scientists seem reluctant to abandon trying to develop some way of successfully cloning humans, but have been moving away from the cell nuclear replacement...
'Curiosity without compassion is inhuman; compassion without curiosity is ineffective' Victor Wiesskopf [1] In early January, two companies announced dramatic advances in genetic engineering. The advance was the successful cloning of animals lacking the gene causing organ rejection in humans.[2] This development brings us one step closer to xenotransplantation, the ability to...
'Government must act to ban all human cloning despite court decision,' says CMF (21/01/2002)
Peter Saunders, General Secretary of CMF (the UK's largest organisation of Christian doctors), commented on today's Court of Appeal ruling that embryo cloning is now permitted under the 1990 Human...
