Sir—In your July 21 editorial, 1 you admirably draw a line in the sand and recognise the
ethical unacceptability of creating embryos by somatic nuclear transfer exclusively to use …

In the fifth year since human cloning to generate stem cells was legalised in the UK, what
progress has been made towards taking stem-cell therapy from laboratory to clinical …

Reports that European Union Council of Science Ministers approved legislation that will
allow the launch of the Sixth Framework Research Programme, which allows EU funding of …

Discusses the controversy over the United States Congress' funding ban on research using
human embryos. Recommendation from the US National Bioethics Advisory Commission to …

Reports that the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is considering
an application from a research group that wants permission to generate human embryonic …

Reports that the Spanish parliament has voted against a proposal by the Socialist party to
permit research using embryonic stem cells from unwanted human embryos created for in …

1 Baschetti R. Use of stem cells in creation of embryos. Lancet 2001; 358: 2078. biological,
evolutionary factors, such as the selective advantages of groups strengthened by the moral …

Discusses a vote by British members of parliament to allow greater freedom in embryonic
stem-cell research. Concern of anti-abortion groups over the approval of the amendment; …

The ethical debate about human embryonic stem-cell research has revisited the old embryo-
research debate, which UK law put within a framework as long ago as 1990, 1 licensing it …

Comment embryonic stem-cell lines in 1981. 2, 3 Unlike in the mouse, 4 leukaemia-
inhibitory factor was not able to maintain the non-differentiated growth of human embryonic …