The NHS is to start using blood grown in the laboratory in trials on patients.
Scientists have made it by using stem cells taken from umbilical cords and from adult donors.
In the News
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June 25th, 2015
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June 25th, 2015The sperm of all 18-year-olds should be frozen for use in later life because of the risks attached with being an older father, a UK bioethicist has argued.
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June 24th, 2015More than 200 abortion activists have issued an extraordinary challenge to the justice system by declaring that they have broken the criminal law on assisting an abortion in Northern Ireland.
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June 23rd, 2015A pregnant woman was sacked by the charity fundraising company she worked for after her manager told her to have an abortion and she refused.
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June 23rd, 2015
Divorce “over the counter” risks “dumbing down” marriage breakdown and sending the wrong message over its true gravity, a senior family judge said yesterday.
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June 23rd, 2015An influential Christian think tank headed by the Free Church of Scotland Moderator will today say that Scotland needs more faith schools.
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June 22nd, 2015
Laws on “assisted dying”, like the one tabled by Lord Falconer and debated last year in Britain’s House of Lords, are written as if everyone is a strong-minded, no-nonsense individual and never susceptible to depression or influence or doubt. But I must tell you, most patients facing an approaching death just aren’t like that.
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June 20th, 2015
The majority of people who spoke to the Belfast Telegraph in north Belfast said the pastor should be free to say what he wants and should not be disciplined just because he spoke his own mind.
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June 10th, 2015
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June 10th, 2015