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1997-11
UNESCO
UNESCO reacted to developments in genomics by releasing this declaration, which draws on the tradition of the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights and is similarly framed in terms of human dignity, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
1997-09
Meredith Wadman
A brief Nature news item documents the adoption of a voluntary five-year moratorium on human cloning by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).
1997-04
Council of Europe
Biological and medical research | Embryo research | Europe | Heritable genome editing | Human rights | Report | Somatic genome editing
This treaty is more commonly known as the “Oviedo Convention,” after the city in Spain where it was ratified.
1997
Michael Mulkay
This book provides an account of the events and public debate that took place between the commissioning of the Warnock Committee in 1982, to the 1990 passage of legislation that approved embryo research under certain conditions.
1995-09
P Berg , M F Singer
Paul Berg, one of the scientists behind the original call for a voluntary moratorium on recombinant DNA research, and Maxine Singer, another molecular biologist and fellow Asilomar organizer, reflect on the legacy of Asilomar 20 years after the conference.