In the News this Week
Posted by Jesse Reynolds May 23, 2008
Biopolitical Times
The UK Parliament, debating a bill to overhaul its oversight of assisted reproduction and embryo research, rejected proposed bans on both PGD "saviour siblings" and animal-human hybrid embryos for cloning-based stem cell research.
In contrast, South Korea did ban the hybrids.
Here in the US, President Bush signed a bill to prohibit genetic discrimination into law, while a leading member of Congress spoke of future oversight of stem cell research by the National Institutes of Health.
The former head of a failed pet cloning company and most disgraced and fraudulent scientist in recent memory teamed up to launch a new pet cloning company.