In August, federally funded work on stem cells was temporarily suspended after a judge ruled that work on hESCs violates a legal amendment in 1995 forbidding funding of any experiments that involve destruction of human embryos. (newscientist.com)
In the past few years, scientists have proposed several alternatives to deriving human ES cells that would not require destruction of a human embryo (Science, 24 December 2004, p. 2174). (sciencemag.org)
The fundamental impediment to our acceptance of embryonic stem cell research has to do with destruction of the human embryo. (relevantmagazine.com)