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Green light for hybrid research
CMF calls on government to rethink its investment in cord blood collection (08/01/2008)
The Christian Medical Fellowship has welcomed a new bill encouraging the donation at childbirth of umbilical cord blood and for it to be stored for public use. It has also...
MP's 'life-saving' cord blood bid
CMF welcomes new stem cell treament but warns against government and media spin (11/04/2007)
The Christian Medical Fellowship has welcomed today's report that Brazilian and US scientists have used transfusions of patients' own stem cells to reverse type I diabetes. 'This new stem cell...
Science must operate within ethical boundaries says CMF (05/04/2007)
Christian Medical Fellowship has reaffirmed its opposition to the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos. CMF, Britain's largest group of Christian doctors, was responding to the House of Commons...
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 last few months have yielded much good news on the adult stem cell front. Several ground-breaking research projects have announced successful results. There is hopeful news for diabetics. In New Orleans, human bone marrow stem cells have been shown to repair defective insulin-producing pancreatic cells in diabetic mice. [1]...
Response from CMF to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's new Inquiry into Government Proposals for the Regulation of Hybrid and Chimera Embryos (22/01/2007)
Executive Summary - (numbers refer to paragraphs) 1-3. We introduce Christian Medical Fellowship's status and relevant core beliefs, and list relevant submissions made to other recent inquiries. 4-5. We...
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....
The tabloid headline 'Virgin conception first for UK' [1] entered the public consciousness in early September; but the newest 'HFEA-approved' development in embryo research described was simply the next logical step following on from recommendations made by the Warnock Committee in 1984 and subsequently given statutory force in the 1990...
