Britain approves human-animal embryo research


	Britain approves human-animal embryo research
Tommolo
9-5-2007 1:57 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8576f0bd-ab14-4cf8-83c6-092a982ba2f3/7EDAE766-338F-4A50-A183-3BCDA562E48D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml" href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml" style="font-size: 11px;">today.reuters.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml">British regulators decided on Wednesday to permit in principle the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research into illnesses such as Parkinson's, Motor Neurone Disease and Alzheimer's</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml">The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) agreed to allow a specific kind of inter-species hybrid, where human DNA is injected into a hollowed out animal egg cell</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml"><P>The resulting "cytoplastic hybrid" embryo, or "cybrid" would be 99.9 percent human and 0.1 percent animal.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml"><P>Two teams of British scientists have applied to the HFEA for permission to create such hybrids to overcome a shortage of donated human eggs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml"><P>The researchers hope to use the hybrid embryos, which must be destroyed after 14 days, to create stem cells to help find new medical treatments for degenerative diseases.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1" href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1" style="font-size: 11px;">today.reuters.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1"><P>Opponents say mixing even a tiny amount of human genetic material with that of an animal is unnatural and wrong.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-09-05T155219Z_01_L04813679_RTRUKOC_0_US-BRITAIN-EMBRYO.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1"><P>Scientists in China, the United States and Canada have already carried out similar work.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7EDAE766-338F-4A50-A183-3BCDA562E48D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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