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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>International issues in the regulation of stem cell research</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2008/#story_4064</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ There have been several recent international developments in stem cell regulation. On Friday 11 April, the Bundestag (lower house) of the German Parliament voted 346-228 to ease current legal restrictions on human embryonic stem (HES) cell research (see BBC news). Previously, German researchers have ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Therapeutic cloning legislation progresses in Australia</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2008/#story_4061</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Australian Capital Territories (ACT) legislative assembly is the latest Australian government body to lift its prohibition on human therapeutic cloning and pass the Human Cloning and Embryo Research Amendment Act 2008 (see press release). The state governments of Victoria (see previous news), Qu ... ]]></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>Genetic testing and diagnosis - international law comparisons</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/03/2008/#story_3995</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The US Genetics and Public Policy Center has made a new internet resource available; the International Law Search facility allows users to search a database of laws in 16 countries related to human cloning, human genetic modification, and reproductive genetic modification. The database contains info ... ]]></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>UN report calls for international ban on human cloning</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/11/2007/#story_3924</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Advisors to the UN have called for an urgent international prohibition on the reproductive cloning of humans.&amp;nbsp;In the UK, as in more than 50 other countries, national law forbids the cloning of humans for the purposes of reproduction.&amp;nbsp;In a report issued on 10th November 2007, the United Nat ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Therapeutic cloning in primates</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/11/2007/#story_3908</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The prospect of creating cloned stem cell lines from the cells of adult humans appears to have moved a step closer with a report in the journal Nature of the generation of two such cell lines from a primate &amp;ndash; in this case, an adult rhesus macaque.&amp;nbsp;Previously, somatic cell nuclear transfer ... ]]></description>
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			<title>NIH plans to implement presidental stem cell Executive Order</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2007/#story_3813</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Last month the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) published its plan to implement an Executive Order from President Bush to explore methods to expand the number of approved pluripotent stem cell lines &amp;lsquo;without creating a human embryo for research purposes or destroying, discarding, or subj ... ]]></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>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>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>Academy of Medical Sciences report backs hybrid embryo research</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/06/2007/#story_3435</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The independent UK Academy of Medical Sciences has released a new report on inter-species embryos combining human and animal material (cytoplasmic hybrid, human transgenic or human chimeric embryos), which concludes that such research is vital for understanding and treating human disease. This follo ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Australian legislation to permit therapeutic cloning</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/05/2007/#story_3307</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Upper House of the state Parliament of Victoria, Australia, has voted 23 to 16 in favour of permitting therapeutic cloning for the creation of stem cells for medical research (see Infertility Treatment Amendment Bill 2007). Therapeutic cloning refers to the creation of a human embryo by somatic  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>HFEA consultation on hybrid human-animal embryos</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2007/#story_2994</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has decided that applications to create hybrid human-animal embryos (see previous news story) as part of stem cell research “would potentially fall with the remit of the HFEA to regulate and licence” and would not be prohibited by current legis ... ]]></description>
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			<title>HFEA’s role in licensing of human-animal hybrid research undecided</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2007/#story_2984</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Controversy over proposals to create hybrid human-animal embryos as part of stem-cell research (see previous news story) continues as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) considers whether it has the authority to assess the two applications made for licences to produce such hybrid ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Use of terminally differentiated cells for cloning found to be unexpectedly efficient</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2006/#story_2666</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or reproductive cloning, was the technique used to create ‘Dolly’ the sheep, and is based on the transfer of a nucleus from an adult cell into an oocyte from which the nucleus has been removed. However this process is usually very inefficient, with a success rate ... ]]></description>
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