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Professor Henry T Greely BioNews Comment articles written by Professor Henry T Greely: Page 1 of 1 On 15 April 2021, the journal Cell published a paper reporting the creation of part monkey, part human embryos... [Read More] Tel: +44 (0)20 7278 7870 Email: admin@progress.org.uk Limited company registered in England and Wales no 07405980 Registered charity no 1139856 Website initially design by Thunder Progress Educational Trust
FILM: Sarah Norcross in conversation with Sally Cheshire Appeared in BioNews 1094 This film documents an in-depth conversation between Sarah Norcross (director of the Progress Educational Trust, the charity that publishes BioNews) and Sally Cheshire (outgoing chair of the UK's fertility regulator Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority). If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it. The main themes of the conversation are as follows. 00:00 01:21 03:33 06:05 08:32 16:02 Looking to the future During this conversation Sarah Norcross refers to the following events, films of which ...
Devika Sooklall BioNews Review articles written by Devika Sooklall: Page 1 of 1 This genetic society podcast gives us a brief look into the history of genome editing and the various techniques that have been developed that have led us to where we are today... [Read More]
Professor David Jones BioNews Comment articles written by Professor David Jones: Page 1 of 1 Students of bioethics sometimes imagine that the philosophical, moral and legal status of the human embryo is reducible to the single question: 'Is the human embryo a person?'... [Read More] In the early 1980s many people both inside and outside Parliament were seeking to prohibit experimentation on human embryos. In response, the government convened a committee of enquiry, aiming by that means to circumvent the possibility of a ban. The Warnock Report duly concluded that 'the embryo of the human ...
FILM: The Special Status of Mary Warnock – From Fertility Treatment to Embryo Research This film documents the Progress Educational Trust (PET) event ' The Special Status of Mary Warnock: From Fertility Treatment to Embryo Research', which was held on what would have been the 97th birthday of the late Baroness Mary Warnock (1924-2019). The event was sponsored by the British Fertility Society, the London Egg Bank, Theramex and Reproduction and Fertility (a journal from the Society for Reproduction and Fertility). (If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.) Introduction 0:17:16...