BRITAIN’S only researcher licensed to experiment on human stem cells from
embryos is keen to get the green light for tissue research following the
publication of the Donaldson report
(“Put it to the vote”). Austin Smith, director of the Centre
for Genome Research at the University of Edinburgh, stresses that only through
research on stem cells from human embryos can we learn how to refashion tissue
without creating embryos in the process.
Smith is licensed to experiment on human stem cells in Britain because his
objective is to improve infertility treatment—one of five categories of
research for which…
