The Dutch government announced its intention to allow the cultivation of human embryos in the laboratory for research “in accordance with strict conditions and subject to certain restrictions,” reports The Guardian.
The Minister of Health of the Netherlands Edith Shippers stated that it wants “to allow the creation of embryos for scientific research».
According to her, this is done in order to “give people the opportunity to have [healthy] children” those who are faced with certain difficulties, such as infertility.
«Investigation Regarding infertility, assisted reproduction techniques and hereditary or congenital diseases,” – said in a statement. The document also highlights the treatment of people who have become infertile after cancer treatment at an early age
Thus, the Netherlands legislation will be changed -. Is currently only allowed to carry out tests on embryos left over after in vitro fertilization procedure ( IVF).
in this so-called “14-day rule”, according to which it is impossible to grow human embryos in the laboratory for more than two weeks, will continue to be strictly adhered to.
it was reported earlier that UK Institute of Francis Crick was given official permission to conduct experiments on human embryos genome editing.
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