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BRITISH EMBRYO DECISION SPARKS CALL FOR WORLD POLICY
August 10, 2006
Britain's decision to allow couples to screen embryos for possible cancer genes has highlighted the vastly different practice in the US and revived calls for global agreement on the issue. In the US there is no government regulation of the screening procedure, called preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Instead, the decision to use genetic screening is up to doctors, patients and healthcare centres.
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