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The Dutch government is to change the law on embryos to allow them to be grown for ‘very specific’ scientific research under ‘strict conditions’ in an effort to help people unable to have children. 
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UK angels and VCs have pumped $2.15 million into Cambridge-born Desktop Genetics (DTG). The Investment will accelerate development of the startup’s DESKGEN genome editing software platform. The bioinformatics company aims to revolutionise the way genetic researchers work. The cash comes from a syndicate of VCs and angel investors, including IQ Capital Partners, London Business Angels, the London Co-Investment Fund, Dr Jonathan Milner (deputy chairman and founder of Abcam), Dr Martin Murphy (CEO of Syncona Partners) and Dr Darrin Disley (CEO of Horizon Discovery).
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The Francis Crick Institute in London is the new home for more than 1,000 scientists researching key questions about how diseases develop.
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Europe's biggest biomedical laboratory, the Francis Crick Institute, has opened in London the 1st September.
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This week it was announced that the National Institutes of Health will be ending its chimpanzee research programs, a move that has been met with applause from animal rights groups while raising eyebrows—and concerns—from some across the medical research community.
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The world's largest stem cell society this week signaled a willingness to reconsider a long-standing restriction on laboratory efforts to grow and study human embryos. In new guidelines, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) also spotlights a possible alternative to using embryos that might be less ethically fraught: emerging methods to model stages of human development with stem cells. ISSCR's influential guidelines previously put the culture of human embryos beyond 14 days postfertilization in its most restrictive category three: "prohibited research activities." The new guidelines, drafted by a task force of scientists and ethicists, omit longer embryo culture from this category and encourage a public discussion about allowing it.