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			<title>Regulation and research in stem cell medicine</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2008/#story_4263</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Regenerative medicine has continued to feature in the headlines recently. The European Science Foundation has announced plans to strengthen the research base in this area, which they define as &amp;ldquo;the development of stem cell therapies to restore lost, damaged, or ageing cells and tissues in the  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill update</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/06/2008/#story_4240</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill received considerable media and Parliamentary coverage in May as members of the House of Commons spent two days debating its most contentious clauses on which they had been given a free vote. Gordon Brown briefed Labour members of Parliament in advance by  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>On deafness, disability and embryo selection</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2008/#story_4073</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Amendments proposed last year in a review of the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act contain a new provision in relation to fertility treatment that has offended members of the deaf community and raises important questions about government policies on embryo selection and serious disability. ... ]]></description>
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			<title>UK developments in human embryo research</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2008/#story_4057</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced a compromise whereby Labour Members of Parliament (MPs) will be permitted a free &amp;lsquo;conscience&amp;rsquo; vote on selected elements on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill currently before Parliament (see previous news); however, they are expec ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill debate continues</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/03/2008/#story_4022</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ 108 UK academic professors (including scientists, lawyers, philosophers and theologians) have written to the Times newspaper calling for the Prime minister Gordon Brown to allow Members of Parliament (MPs) a free vote in the House of Commons on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. Proposed a ... ]]></description>
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			<title>UK approves human-animal hybrid embryos for research</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2008/#story_3963</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has issued one-year licences permitting the creation of chimeric human-animal embryos for research purposes to two centres at King's College London and Newcastle University (see press release). Both centres wish to create embryonic stem cell ... ]]></description>
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			<title>New report: Ethical issues in public health</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/12/2007/#story_3928</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published a new report and policy recommendations, Public health: ethical issues, which examines &amp;ldquo;the responsibilities of governments, individuals and other parties, such as the food and drink industry, in achieving a healthy society&amp;rdquo; (see news artic ... ]]></description>
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			<title>NHGRI expands funding initiatives</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2007/#story_3857</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced recently that is to expand two of its ongoing initiatives. One of these is intended to broaden knowledge of the human genome by, for example, identifying individual genes, their location  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>HGC advocates legal ban on 'genetic discrimination'</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/09/2007/#story_3772</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The UK&amp;rsquo;s Human Genetics Commission, which advises the Government on scientific advances in genetics, and in particular on their ethical, legal and social implications, has published its response to the Discrimination Law Review&amp;rsquo;s consultation on proposals for a Single Equality Bill for G ... ]]></description>
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			<title>HFEA approves in principle cytoplasmic hybrid research</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/09/2007/#story_3664</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ On the 5th of September the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) approved in principle the use of animal eggs in the creation of cytoplasmic hybrid embryos for stem cell research.&amp;nbsp;Contrary to press headlines implying blanket support for true animal-human hybrids and chimeras, the ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Unwitting stem cell discovery by discredited scientist</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/08/2007/#story_3604</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Discredited stem cell scientist Professor Hwang Woo-suk (see previous news story) may have inadvertently made a remarkable breakthrough in stem cell research. The rise and fall of the Korean scientist has been well documented, and this latest twist is the result of research by experts at Harvard and ... ]]></description>
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			<title>European Group on Ethics review of embryonic stem cell research</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/08/2007/#story_3578</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The European Group on Ethics (EGE) has delivered its most recent opinion on the ethics of EC Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) research projects using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). The EGE is a group of 15 independent experts that have been appointed by the European Commission to examine ethic ... ]]></description>
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			<title>China and India join WHO clinical trial registry</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/08/2007/#story_3561</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that its web-based registry of clinical trial information now includes trial data from China and India, countries that are widely regarded as rapidly emerging economies in terms of biomedical research.  The registry search portal allows users (such a ... ]]></description>
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			<title>German ethics council recommends amendment of stem cell law</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2007/#story_3542</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The German National Ethics Council, an independent body that acts as a national forum for the discussion of ethical issues in the life sciences, has recommended changes to German legislation that would lighten current restrictions for stem cell research. The current law is more restrictive than that ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Bioethics guidelines for nutrigenomics</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2007/#story_3531</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The European Nutrigenomics Organisation (NuGO), a European network of excellence funded as part of the EU&amp;rsquo;s Sixth Framework Programme for Research, has published a set of bioethics guidelines designed to help scientists undertaking nutrigenomics research using human subjects.&amp;nbsp;  The 19 gui ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Royal society consultation on synthetic biology</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2007/#story_3533</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Royal Society, an independent UK body dedicated to promoting excellence in science, is seeking views on the emerging discipline of synthetic biology, to inform their work on policy in this area.Synthetic biology refers to the artificial construction of novel biological systems or organisms; buil ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Meeting report: Genetic Testing of Children</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2007/#story_3523</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A meeting jointly sponsored by the Clinical Genetics Society, GIG, CESAGEN, SGPPH and the BMA was held on 6 July 2007 to review the genetic testing of children. The aim of the meeting was to revisit guidelines developed by the Clinical Genetics Society in 1994. At that time, there was considerable v ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Advance in synthetic genomics: microbial 'species transplant'</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2007/#story_3484</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A team of scientists led by Dr Craig Venter of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in the US have published work reporting the transplant of a bacterial genome from one species to another [Lartigue C et al. (2007) Science online DOI: 10.1126/science.1144622 (abstract)], effectively changing the sec ... ]]></description>
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			<title>UK government response to Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee report on  hybrids and chimeras</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2007/#story_3485</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Government published its formal response to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee&amp;rsquo;s report on the regulation of hybrid and chimera embryos on 18 June 2007. Given the demonstrable shift in the Government&amp;rsquo;s approach to inter-species embryos as evidenced by the publicati ... ]]></description>
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			<title>US stem cell research developments</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/06/2007/#story_3455</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ As anticipated, US president George Bush has again used his presidential veto to block government-approved legislation to increase access to state funding for embryonic stem cell research (see previous news), reportedly saying &amp;quot;I will not allow our nation to cross this moral line&amp;quot; (see Nat ... ]]></description>
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