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SOME CURRENT HIGHLIGHTS

WHAT'S NEW? : See the Latest Additions to the SRT Website

SRT On-line Information Sheets
SRT produces A4 Information Sheets on a wide range of issues, aimed at presenting some of the key aspects of current ethical and social issues in technology in simple terms for the non-expert. We have now begun to put them on line, beginning with three on environmental issues.

SRT Associates
SRT recently launched its Associates Scheme an inaugural Associates Gathering. Find out more about the scheme on our SRT Associates page.

What is the SRT Project?
Find out more about the SRT's Project's origins, work & aims

The Big Issues
Browse some major issues which SRT is studying - genetic engineering, cloning, environment, energy, climate change, risk, God and Science ... and much more.

Genetically Modified Food
SRT's Report to the Church of Scotland General Assembly and a page setting out the Pros and Cons of this controversial issue

Engineering Genesis
Read more about SRT's book and the 5 year expert working group study which produced it

Xenotransplantation
SRT's report on the ethics of the use of genetially modified animal organs in humans

Cloning Highlights
SRT's extensive pages on the ethics of cloning in animals, humans and human embryos.

CLONING HIGHLIGHTS

Are Embryonic Stem Cells a Step too Far?

The UK Parliament has just voted to allow the cloning of embryos to produce human stem cells for research, and to allow embryo cloning. Was this right or have we opened the door too far? SRT assesses the vote.

Stem Cells and Embryonic Cloning
Discussion Document of the European Churches Bioethics Working Group

Human Embryonic Cloning - SRT's Submission to the Donaldson Committee
In October 1999 SRT and the Board of Social Responsibility of the Church of Scotland made a substantial submission of our ethical concerns about Human Embryonic Cloning to the UK Government committeee. We express deep concern about proposals to clone human embryos which would be used not for reproduction but as a source of replacement tissues, and call for a much wider public debate of this controversial issue before making its mind up.

SRT Comment on "The Implications of Cloning for the Welfare of Farmed Livestock"
Farm Animal Welfare Council Report on Animal Cloning

Should we Clone Humans? - An Update
After much discussion with leading experts round the world, here's an update of our classic paper setting out the reasons why it is wrong to clone human beings.

Church of Scotland's official statement on Cloning


SRT at the Human Genome Project 2001

SRT Director Donald Bruce spoke at two public events in connection with the meeting of the Human Genome Project (HUGO) in Edinburgh 19-22 April 2001. On April 18 he speaks in a panel session on ethical aspects of the human genome at the HUGO Public Forum. On April 23 he spoke on ethics of gene patenting at a HUGO Satellite Meeting on Intellectual Property and Related Socio-legal Aspects of the Human Genome Project.


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