Hybrid embryo laws approved - Liverpool Daily Post 23rd October 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

CONTROVERSIAL new legislation allowing scientists to conduct experiments using hybrid human-animal embryos was approved by the House of Com-mons last night despite a small rebellion by Labour backbenchers. An amendment, tabled by Southport MP John Pugh, spec-ifically outlawing the placing of human gametes – eggs or sperm – into an animal was defeated, the Government insisting it was unnecessary.

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