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Perhaps I'm reading this incorrectly, but as far I can see it was implicitly banned in the 1990 Act by section 3(3d). And then section 3ZA(5) as introduced in 2
by geographomics 12y ago
Perhaps I'm reading this incorrectly, but as far I can see it was implicitly banned in the 1990 Act by section 3(3d). And then section 3ZA(5) as introduced in 2008 enabled the development of oocyte or embryo-modifying technologies to prevent mitochondrial disease.
- maxerickson 12y agoI think you're right, sorry for the noise.
- geographomics 12y agoNo I think we're both correct - sorry, I didn't explain myself properly! I agree with you that it was definitely still banned for implantation. But by having that clause about mitochondrial disease in, it enabled researchers to investigate (and the the HFE Authority to permit research on) human mitochondrial transfer techniques in vitro by explicitly pointing out the possibility of a future redefinition. EDIT: this explains it much better than I'm trying to - http://www.hfea.gov.uk/mitochondrial-disease-new-research.html http://www.hfea.gov.uk/mitochondrial-disease-new-research.ht...