Gordon Brown has called on MPs to back stem cell research using human-animal embryos in a Commons vote on Monday. The prime minister, writing in the Observer, said such work was a "moral endeavour" and had the potential to save and improve "millions of lives". But Mr Brown said he respected those... [read full story]
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The Parliamentary vote allowing scientists to create hybrid embryos makes the news in several papers. The Daily Telegraph says Britain is now set to become a world leader in the stem cell research. For the Mail, however, the development is "a huge step into the unknown" as millennia of moral,...
CTV.ca News Staff British MPs effectively gave the go-ahead Monday for human-animal embryos to be used in scientific research. They blocked a bill which would have banned the creation of inter-species embryos by a vote of 336 to 176. Critics had argued that creating human-animal embryos would be...
The UK Government has passed a law allowing human-animal hybrid stem cell research. (AAP: Yang Zongyou, file photo) Audio: Britain OKs science use of human-animal cell hybrids (AM) British stem cell scientists now have a tool at their disposal which is unavailable to Australian researchers after...
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