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Nature Medicine 14, 590 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0608-590a

Britain moves toward loosening embryo laws despite objections

Michael Hopkin1

  1. London

Britain's parliament has begun voting on the most controversial and divisive aspects of its new draft laws governing embryology and reproductive medicine. As Nature Medicine went to press, politicians in the House of Commons had voted by a 336 to 176 majority to make legal the creation of 'cybrid' embryos—human-like embryos from empty animal eggs.