Sentences with phrase «aborted embryos»

The studies are carried out using aborted embryos / foetuses that have been donated by consenting women.

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The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.

To garner such a high proportion of distant fathers, therefore, Dow speculates that the oaks actively favour seeds fertilised by pollen from outside the stand — perhaps by selectively aborting embryos fertilised by nearby trees which may compete less well for nutrients during seed development.

Couples today can look for egg donors with certain characteristics, or screen and then abort embryos with genetic diseases.

Not exact matches

To the extent that stem cell research relies on embryos and aborted fetuses as an experimental source, it contributes to the rising sentiment that the death of one may be used for the convenience of others.

For some this stance can allow external methods of fertilization; for others experimentation with embryos and still - living aborted fetuses; for others, euthanasia for genetically disabled infants, the comatose or senile; and voluntary suicide.

One important fact about embryonic development that is often overlooked is that between two - thirds and four - fifths of all embryos that are generated through standard sexual reproduction are spontaneously aborted.

If so, what is your idea about what becomes of the soul of an embryo that is aborted (naturally or artificially) before birth?

At the July meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid, scientists were horrified — and transfixed — by two presentations: one that explored adding cells to developing embryos and another that outlined a process of growing egg cells from aborted human fetuses.

This has profound implications for our understanding of life's origins, for our understanding of why so many embryos spontaneously abort in the first few days after fertilization, and for our understanding of why some IVF procedures may subtly affect early development, with potential long - term health consequences.

Currently, federal law allows the NIH to fund research on aborted fetal tissue but prohibits grants for any investigation that harms a human embryo.

These cells, which scientists hope to develop into a variety of transplantable tissues, are derived from aborted fetuses and «spare» human embryos in fertility clinics.

For example, the couple can not have «reasonable alternatives,» such as the option of selecting healthy embryos for in vitro fertilization (IVF) or using prenatal testing and aborting a fetus with the disease.