Op-Ed: UK: Regulating IVF and embryo research: Balancing clarity with flexibility

June 20, 2007

I will miss the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) 1990 Act when it is gone. I am no great supporter of our regulatory model and the 1990 Act is flawed and idiosyncratic. However, if you are going to regulate IVF and embryo research, ours is a reasonably solid regulatory framework to adopt and, although it may not always have seemed so during the last 16 years, its approach to regulation is relatively straightforward. (BioNews)