The Hamster Test was devised as part of investigation into male infertility, and entails the mixing of human sperm with eggs from the golden hamster, to test sperm motility. This Test was permitted under the UK’s 1990 Human Fertilisation & Embryology Act, and is much quoted to justify current controversial proposals to allow the creation […] Read more
Great Britain dead? ‘Long live the fox and thumbs down to the father and the fetus’. In recent years under the current Government, the mother of all Parliaments has dedicated 700 hours to protecting the fox from the hunters, with a triumph for the fox. In contrast this week a mere three hours were allocated […] Read more
Gordon Brown’s suicide mission as he distances himself from public opinion 1. Brown on stem cells Given all the other problems he has to face in his precarious leadership of the Labour Party one can almost understand why Gordon Brown hasn’t got his head around the science of stem cells and has simply swallowed the […] Read more
New poll – Gordon Brown risks further unpopularity by pressing ahead with controversial Bill A new ComRes poll commissioned on behalf of CORE (Comment on Reproductive Ethics) released today shows that almost eight in ten people (77%) believe that the Government risks making itself more unpopular if it forces the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology […] Read more
