
Synthetic human embryos: can the law keep pace with the science?
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The Future of Fertility Laws
Hannah Devlin: There are already a group of scientists who have been working on this, I think informally since last year. They want to come up with guidelines that they hope the whole community in the UK and possibly beyond will form a consensus around. She says it's an incredibly technical area where you want the laws to be clear, but also to allow them to take into account future advances. Hannah: These models do prompt bigger, more philosophical questions in terms of what makes humans humans.
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