Issues in the News
Issues in the News Since January 2007
Issues in the News Since 15 May 2007
- Opinions on Trounsen's move to the US - what does it mean for Australia?
- Leading Australian stem cell researcher, Alan Trounsen moves to California
- Britain's payment for eggs for stem cell research
- Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority support draft legislation allowing "cybrid" embryo research
- Britain’s hybrid embryo decision imminent
- Farmers want NSW Govt to end GM moratorium
- WA releases reproductive technology amendment bill in line with national law
- Australian Senator highlights adult stem cell advance to raise issue of research money allocation
- Britain’s hybrid embryo decision still unstable
- Tasmania puts forward new stem cell/cloning bill to match federal law
- NSW Premier offers prize for first cloned embryonic stem cells
- Queensland holds conscience vote on new cloning/stem cell bill to match federal law
- Was Korean cloning research a breakthrough after all?
- Public warned not to read too much into biotech company opting out of stem cell research
- Germany: Ethics council votes to recommend more liberal stem cell laws
- Australia: Gene Technology Amendment Act 2007 receives royal assent
- NHMRC releases final revisions to ART guidelines to match federal stem cell legislation
- Australia: Call for submissions on coma unresponsiveness guidelines
- NSW cloning/stem cell bill passes in the upper house; act assented 4 July 2007
- Canadian researchers identify genes controlling stem cell's fate
- Bush vetoes another stem cell bill
- US researchers yield stem cells from monkey embryos
- Bill proposed for National HPV vaccination register in Australia
- Ahead of expiry of Victoria’s moratorium on GM, United DairyFarmers vote on their position
- Australia: New clinical practice guidelines for communicating end-of-life issues
- Aberdeen researchers ask: Are public views on stem cells shaped by the media?
- Australia’s Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human embryo Research Amendment Act 2006 comes into effect and revocation of state laws takes effect
- Report on ethical dilemmas facing Human Research Ethics Committees in Australia suggests changes to the system
- Atheist Foundation of Australia questions role of faith in politics
- Scientific breakthrough: Embryonic stem cells without embryos?
- NSW cloning/stem cell bill debate and passing in the lower house
- Sydney Archbishop, George Pell creates controversy around NSW cloning bill debate; subsequent investigation into ‘interference’
- Australian organ and tissue donation guidelines released
- Speculation on how Britain’s animal/human hybrid debate affects Australia
- NHMRC release new National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research
- Britain once again debate human-animal hybrid embryos
- Victorian Infertility Act amended to match national legislation
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