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Important Changes in UK Law on Reproductive and Genetic Technologiesby David King, Genetic CrossroadsJanuary 26th, 2007Dr. David King gives his views on government proposals that would reorganize the UK HFEA and set important new rules.

Playing the fear cardby Jesse Reynolds, Biopolitical TimesJanuary 10th, 2007The idea of creating human-animal hybrids is initially deeply repulsive. Although many people may imagine something out of Planet of the Apes, at least one proposal is less problematic than what it would supplant.

UK Stem Cell Vote: It's decision time for 'hybrid' human-animal embryos[Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky]by Marisa Taylor, Red HerringJanuary 5th, 2007"The United Kingdom’s regulatory body for stem cell and fertility research will vote Wednesday to determine whether a team of British scientists should be allowed to use animal eggs in human embryonic stem cell research. "

O Brave New World? No thanks.by Jesse Reynolds, Biopolitical TimesNovember 9th, 2006The popular science blogger Pharyngula not only defends the proposal in the UK to use cow eggs in research cloning, but calls for the resulting mostly-human clonal embryo to be implanted and brought to term - in a cow's uterus.

Stem cell experts seek licence to create human-rabbit embryoby Ian Sample, The GuardianOctober 5th, 2006"British scientists are seeking approval to create embryos by fusing human cells with animal eggs in controversial research which will boost stem cell science and tackle some of the most debilitating and untreatable neurological diseases."

Mixing animal and human cells gets more exoticby Paul Elias, Associated PressJune 18th, 2006"The mixing of human and animal cells in the name of medicine has been going on for decades. People are walking around with pig valves in their hearts and scientists have routinely injected human cells into lab mice to mimic diseases."

Of Mice, Men and Stem-Cell Researchby Osagie K. Obasogie, San Francisco ChronicleFebruary 20th, 2006President Bush's State of the Union address highlighted several key policy issues, such as America's dependency on foreign oil, the ongoing war in Iraq and Baby Boomers' impact on Social Security. But the president's call for legislation to prohibit scientists from creating "animal-human hybrids" caught many by surprise; the term was one of the most popular Internet searches in the hours following his speech.

In the brains of mice grow the cells of manSan Francisco ChronicleDecember 13th, 2005Researchers in San Diego have designed mice containing fully functional human nerve cells as a novel way to study and potentially treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Stem cell scientists debate finer points of research ethicsby Alex Barnum, San Francisco ChronicleJune 26th, 2005"[W]ith the passage of California's stem cell initiative... the stem cell debate is shifting focus. It's no longer about whether to do it, but how to do it in an ethically appropriate way."

Stem cell guidelines get mixed reception: Critics say voluntary rules are too laxby Edie Lau, Sacramento BeeApril 27th, 2005A "committee of the National Academies on Tuesday issued voluntary guidelines for human embryonic stem cell studies... The recommendations fell short, however, of some critics' hopes for more vigorous oversight."

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