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Proceeding contribution from Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Monday, 3 December 2007. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL].


Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

My noble friend may well be right, and if he is not a biologist I am certainly in no position to be able to say conclusively that he is right or wrong. However, I refer him to the paper by VM Dabhi and KF Lindahl, published in 1995 in Methods in Enzymology, volume 260, and entitled ““Mitochondrial DNA-encoded histocompatibility antigens””. It is precisely because there is difference between scientists that I passionately believe that regulatory authorities need to hear these arguments so that people better qualified than me can assess what is true and what is not.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
696 c1547 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Fertility Human embryo experiments Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority Ethics Parents Medicine Research Stem cells Human-animal hybrid embryos
Legislation
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HL) 2007-08
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk