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Nature 388, 508 (7 August 1997) |
Unesco text will target gene techniques
Meredith Wadman
A meeting of government experts held at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in Paris has modified a proposed declaration on genetics and human rights, due to be debated this autumn, so that it explicitly denounces human cloning and germ-line gene therapy.The modification goes beyond the advice of Unesco's International Bioethics Committee (IBC), which has spent four years drafting the original declaration, and whose 53 members had broadly urged that the declaration should stick to general principles and not address specific technologies.
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