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human material can be used in hybrid experiments without consent (nucleus - Christmas 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 tissue...

fertility expert attempts reproductive cloning (nucleus - summer 2009)

A fertility expert claims to have implanted cloned human embryos into the wombs of several women with the intention of producing live offspring. Operating from a secret laboratory thought to be somewhere in the Middle-East, Dr Panayiotis Zavos also claims to have created clones of several dead people, including a...

CMF Submission to DoH: HFE Act 2008 regulations (30/03/2009)

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...

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...

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...

Labour 'should offer its MPs a free vote on hybrid embryos'

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Green light for hybrid research

Human-animal hybrids - Government must maintain its proposed prohibition (triple helix - spring/summer 2007)

In 2005 the Department of Health consulted widely on the future of the Human Fertilisation Embryology (HFE) Act, and CMF made a substantial Submission.[1] One of the many questions asked concerned creating human hybrid and chimera embryos, which would contain genetic material from both humans and non-human animals. Of the...

cmf file 34 (2007) - chimeras, hybrids and 'cybrids' ()

Early in 2007 a parliamentary committee met to discuss the technological and ethical issues surrounding any possible mixing together of human and animal species. They sat as a response to proposed legislation which, if enacted, would have banned such work. After effective lobbying from scientists and other associated interest groups,...