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The US House of Representatives is wading into the debate over whether human embryos should be modified to introduce heritable changes. Its fiscal year 2016 spending bill for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would prohibit the agency from spending money to evaluate research or clinical applications for such products.
In an unusual twist, the bill—introduced on June 17—would also direct the FDA to create a committee that includes religious experts to review a forthcoming report from the US Institute of Medicine (IOM). The IOM's analysis, which considers the ethics of creating embryos that have three genetic parents, was commissioned by the FDA.
The House legislation comes during a time of intense debate on such matters, sparked by the announcement in April that researchers in China had edited the genomes of human embryos. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) moved quickly to remind the public that a 1996 law prevents the federal government from funding work that destroys human embryos or creates them for research purposes.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-congress-moves-to-block-human-embryo-editing/
[Source]: http://www.nature.com/news/us-congress-moves-to-block-human-embryo-editing-1.17858
We covered a related story, Three-Person Babies Could Be Possible in Two Years just over a year ago.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by DECbot on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:49PM
Oh, I've got my experiments all ready to go. I'm just having troubles finding a date ^h^h^h^h^h willing test subject.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday June 30 2015, @07:14PM
Grow a date. Then enjoy the farce like the one depicted in Repli-Kate [wikipedia.org] from 2002.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:13PM
Try the cemetery or the morgue. Sometimes they aren't even dead.
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