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Do three-parent babies suggest a future for genetically modified designer children?

Iain Brassington By Filed Under: Health and Social Care, Science and Engineering, Science and Technology Posted:

Yesterday, the UK’s fertility regulator approved a new technique of mitochondrial transfer, which allows babies to be made from two women and one man in order to prevent children being born with serious genetic diseases. Dr Iain Brassington considers some of the potential legal, ethical and practical implications of the decision.     There is a specific legal exemption […]

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Another Assisted Dying Bill is before the Commons: How many safeguards are enough?

Iain Brassington By Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted:

As the Assisted Dying Bill is due to be discussed in the Commons today, Ian Brassington asks if we are taking the right approach. When Rob Marris’ Assisted Dying Bill is discussed in the Commons, it will be the latest in a number of attempts to make some form of assistance in dying legal in […]

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Should We Welcome “Three-Parent Babies”?

Iain Brassington By Filed Under: All posts, Featured, Science and Technology, Westminster Watch Posted:

The House of Commons voted for a small but significant change in the law when it expressed its approval for the legalisation of mitochondrial transfer. Iain Brassington, Senior Lecturer, in the School of Law at The University of Manchester explores the issues the debate hinged on and whether the right decision was made. Mitochondrial illnesses arise […]

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