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Germany clears genetic testing of embryos after ethics debate
Germany’s upper house of parliament on Friday gave its green light to testing embryos after in vitro fertilisation in certain cases after a passionate ethical debate in the country on the issue. The Bundesrat voted to allow so-called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis of embryos when one of the partners had a…
Scientists slam company for testing ‘ethnic purity’ of Hungarian far-right politician
The European Society of Human Genetics has denounced the company Nagy Gén for genetically testing a member of parliament from the Hungarian far-right Jobbik party to ensure he did not have a Roma or Jewish ethnic background. The company examined 18 positions in the MP’s genome for variants that it…
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