Should EU or US taxes fund Embryo Stem Cell research?
A week after US President George Bush used his personal veto to block federal funding of embryonic stem cell research in the USA, EU ministers face a similar issue this week. Should EU money be used to fund such research in the next round of EC science research FP7, when some member states ban embryo research and others allow it? See some reflections on an issue of great controversy within the EU, and to which the churches have also given much thought. And across the water, is Mr Bush’s veto really as ethical as it might seem? For more … 24 July 2006 Using Cloning to do Germline Therapy Raises Major Ethical Problems In a forthcoming book Professor Ian Wilmut has reopened an ethical controversy by adocating the future use of cloning and genetic modification of humans to address serious inherited diseases. We discuss some of these issues of cloning, germline gene therapy and embryo selection. For more see Using Cloning to do Germline Therapy Raises Major Ethical Problems. 8 June 2006.
