Starting Grounds For Post-Human Evolution

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Britain To Become Starting Grounds For Post-Human Evolution
Added: Feb 25th, 2007 2:38 PM


Law change 'may bring designer babies'

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor

Britain could become the first country to sanction the genetic alteration of human embryos, a step that a pressure group claims could pave the way to designer babies.

A decade after the cloning of Dolly the sheep, the Government is opening the door to GM human embryos for research, according to Human Genetics Alert.

David King, its director, said: "In a world first, the Government has said it will allow scientists to begin developing the technology for genetic modification of human beings, although creation of actual GM babies will be prohibited for the moment. We believe the public will be horrified."

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Scientific Body Backs Creation Of Human-Animal Chimeras
Added: Feb 25th, 2007 2:34 PM

Backing for hybrid embryo research
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent

Scientists should be allowed to create human-animal hybrid embryos in the search for treatments for nervous system disorders, a Government advisory body said yesterday.

The Human Genetics Commission will give its unanimous backing to the research in a public consultation to be carried out later this year by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

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