Cambridge, U.K. -British medical researchers are breathing a sigh of relief. The government has significantly modified a controversial bill regulating the use of human tissues collected as part of medical procedures and autopsies, after scientists warned that an earlier draft would seriously hamper research. The House of Commons approved the new version of the legislation, known as the Human Tissue Bill, this week, and it will soon proceed to a debate in the House of Lords. "It will still need fine-tuning, [but] to a large extent, researchers' concerns have been addressed. I'm very relieved," says cancer geneticist Shirley Hodgson of St. George's Hospital Medical School in London.
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