Sentences with phrase «embryo research panel»
In 1994, when the federal government was contemplating funding for research involving human embryos, the NIH Embryo Research Panel concluded that just this kind of experiment was ethically appropriate.
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«Everything we talked about was about research directly on the embryo,» for example, to improve on infertility treatment or better understand cancer biology, says R. Alta Charo, a law professor and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School who was a member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel in the mid-1990s, which considered how embryos might be used in research.
The NIH Human Embryo Research Panel's chief ethicist, Professor Ronald Green, proposed that the intelligent and articulate members of a society should vote on whether other members of the species deserve the status of «personhood.»
After carefully studying the Report of the Human Embryo Research Panel, we....
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A panel of nineteen experts appointed by the National Institutes of Health has recommended government funding for conceiving human embryos in the laboratory for the sole purpose of using them as materials for research.
The British government has ignored the advice of two scientific panels and refused to permit research on embryos aimed at finding treatments for damaged tissue and degenerative diseases.
A French high court advised lifting that country's ban on human embryo research, for example, and a U.S. presidential advisory panel recommended that public funds be available for all types of stem cell research.