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News - Announcements
January 2008
Transplant
doctors report anti-rejection advance (24.1.2008)
A team from Mass. General Hospital reports in this week's NEJM that it was
able to partially reprogram the immune systems of kidney transplant patients
by giving the recipients bone marrow from the donor. Of the five patients
treated this way, four are now living without the use of anti-rejection
meds five years later.
Spain
gives go ahead to research using therapeutic cloning (24.1.2008)
The Spanish Commission for the Control of the Donation and Use of Human
Stem Cells, a body which depends on the Ministry for Health and Consumer
Affairs, has given the green light to the first project in Spain which
will use the technique known as nucleus transfer. This is therapeutic
cloning to obtain lines of stem cells which are prepared specifically
from the patient.
HFEA
authorises research using human-animal hybrid embryos (21.1.2008)
By Katy Sinclair: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
License Committee has granted two one-year licenses permitting scientists
at Kings College London and Newcastle University to carry out research
using human-animal embryos. Over the past 12 months the HFEA has been
deliberating on whether the creation of embryos using...
French
scientists develop new strategy to stop transplant rejection
(4.1.2008)
French researchers have developed a new therapy which successfully prevents
transplant rejection while avoiding many of the side effects of the drugs
currently given to transplant patients.
Espagne
: l'Eglise et le gouvernement s'opposent sur les questions de la famille
(3.1.2008)
A l'appel de l'archevêque de Madrid, plusieurs centaines de milliers
de personnes se sont réunies dimanche dernier à Madrid pour
défendre "la famille chrétienne".
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