Britain allows embryo selection to avoid cancer
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LONDON  - British parents with inherited forms of cancer have won the right to select embryos free from genes that might trigger the disease in future generations, The Times reported.
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The European Union has approves the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, which could prevent nearly 3,000 cancers each year in the UK alone.
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With the active encouragement of the Bush administration, U.S. scientists in the past year have developed several methods for creating embryonic stem cells without having to destroy human embryos.
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Two mums and one dad fight hereditary diseases British scientists have successfully created "three parent" embryos using a technique they hope will offer "effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years".â¦
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Â· Tissue from young girls matured in laboratory Â· Technique could avoid chemotherapy side-effect.
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Britain granted its first license for human cloning Wednesday, more than three years after becoming the first nation to authorize the technique to produce stem cells for medical research.    A team of researchers at Newcastle University hope eventually to create insulin-producing cells that could be transplanted into diabetic patients...
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Scientists may be allowed to clone embryos from donated tissues without the need for "express" consent.
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NEW YORK  - A new study provides "reassuring" evidence that babies born from in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) -- in which a cell or two are removed from the developing embryo to screen for genetic problems -- are not at increased risk of birth defects.
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Scientists in Britain claimed a first Tuesday, saying they have created a human embryo using DNA from one man and two women, which they say could help provide treatment for genetic diseases.
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A growing number of couples are screening embryos to detect a predisposition to cancers that may or may not develop later in life, and are often treatable if they do.
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UK scientists have identified a gene which increases the risk of bowel cancer by 20 per cent.
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British regulators will decide on Wednesday whether to permit the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research into illnesses such as Parkinson's, Motor Neurone Disease and Alzheimer's.
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Scientists have created a human embryo with three parents in a breakthrough they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases.
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Couples who have a risk of passing on an inherited form of colon cancer to their children will be allowed to have their embryos screened to ensure they do not carry the faulty gene that causes the illness.
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British regulators granted two licenses  on Thursday to conduct controversial experiments using hybrid  human-animal embryos, paving the way for further stem cell  research into diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
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Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released for Sunday.
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Using a technique borrowed from in vitro fertilization, researchers have for the first time shown that it is possible to create new embryonic stem cell colonies without destroying human embryos. Corrected article