U.K. BIOETHICS: Divided Committee Urges Less Restriction on Embryo Research

Science news article -- Inman 308 (5718): 30 -- (Subscription required.)

"The United Kingdom has some of the least restrictive rules in Europe governing research on human embryos. But in a wide-ranging and controversial report* issued last week, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee argues that they should be relaxed even further: The report says the government should consider lifting the current absolute ban on research involving genetic modification of human embryos and the creation of chimeric human-animal embryos, and that it should even reopen debate on human reproductive cloning."