In effect, it would be asking the House to vote blind on
the safety of techniques that the House might reject outright on the basis of the results.
There is no need for you to worry about
the safety of this technique.
This resulted in a demand that Steptoe and Edwards demonstrate
the safety of the technique first in monkeys.
The committee strongly recommends that any studies be designed so that results from multiple studies can be combined to learn as much as possible about
the safety of the techniques.
Dr Richard Booton, Consultant Respiratory Physician at the North West Lung Centre and senior lecturer at the University's Institute of Inflammation and Repair who led the study, said: «We wanted to see if there were any differences between patients aged less than 70 years old and those older than 70, in terms of both
the safety of the technique and how useful it was for diagnosis.
Women were not included in the first trial of gene therapy, which was mainly concerned with proving
the safety of the technique.
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, who is part of the team doing the TALENs work, says they plan to begin testing
the safety of the technique.