MPs back human-animal hybrid embryos
By Clive Cookson, Science Editor
August 1 2007

The creation of human-animal hybrid embryos should be allowed for research, and parents should register donor conception on a child’s birth certificate, a parliamentary committee said Wednesday.

MPs and peers who scrutinised the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill also called on the government to scrap plans to create a new regulatory body through the merger of existing authorities dealing with human tissue and embryos.

“While the Human Tissue Authority is concerned entirely with the policing of consent, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has to deal with the much more complex moral and ethical issues surrounding the use of human embryos,” its report said. the rest