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Now is not the time to defund human fetal tissue research
4+ hour ago (428+ words) When the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world's largest funder of biomedical research, announced on 22 January that it would stop funding most research involving human fetal tissue, many scientists were dismayed by both the timing and the reasoning....
Human embryo research: how to move towards a 28-day limit
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (1529+ words) Alejandro De Los Angeles carried out this work while a research fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Nissim Benvenisty is a professor of genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Hongkui Deng is a professor…...
European panel rejects creation of human embryos for research
9+ mon, 2+ day ago (347+ words) Nature - LONDONA report giving top-level advice to the European Commission is set to rule that creating human embryos for stem cell research is 'premature'. Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for…...