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(From Business Daily Update)
Byline: international norms, any clinical medical experiments must be based
Author: The general public wouldn't have paid much attention to the revised Ministry of Public Health regulations on assisted reproductive research and human sperm banks, were it not for the media hype on the controversial experiments in South China's Guangzhou involving the technique of human egg nucleus transfer. The three new administrative regulations, announced by the Ministry of Public Health on July 10, went into effect on October 1. They defined, among other items, ethical principles in relation to the use of assisted reproductive technology and human sperm bank management. Following the Universal Declaration of the Human Genome and Human Rights, adopted unanimously by the general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1997, the new regulation states that "human cloning is forbidden." The…