Sentences with phrase «as human cloning»

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This year has seen its share of scientific breakthroughs, such as human cloning and cosmic particle accelerators.

This issue must be taken into consideration when exploring any topic (such as human cloning) that touches on infertility and artificial means of reproduction.

Not exact matches

The purpose was — as we warned and the pro A. 2 debaters denied — to set the stage for state funding of Stowers and other efforts in the fields of ESCR and human cloning.

I am also aware, finally, that we might for now approve human cloning but only in restricted circumstances - as, for example, the cloning of preimplantation embryos (up to fourteen days) for experimental use.

It allows cloning for the purpose of treating created human organism as a corn crop.

These questions are, as you know, at the heart of many problems in our society today, and it is against the background of such questions that I want to reflect upon the significance of human cloning.

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

If it is, in fact, human begetting that expresses our equal dignity, we should not lightly set it aside in a manner as decisive as cloning.

research; since most of the reports have concentrated on justifying the creation of cloned human embryos for research into and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, «stem - cells» has become synonymous with «embryonic stem - cells» in the public imagination.

My position, which I commend for your consideration, is as follows: While I do not rule out the morality of research into human cloning, I do support a moratorium on such research, which would be removed in light of strong evidence for the positive benefits of such research and after concrete proposals have been formulated for avoiding the potential risks.

Given the history of medical experimentation and the lack of access to medical resources for certain groups of people, we must be especially concerned that women, racial and ethnic minorities, prisoners, and the poor are not exploited as a result of this research or of human cloning itself.

If it could be shown that research into human cloning would contribute to the well - being of the children and adults who already (or may someday) suffer from tragic genetic disorders (such as Down's syndrome or Huntington's disease) and that human cloning itself would benefit the children who are brought into the world through cloning.

The public needs to hear, in language that nonscientists can understand, the potential scientific, moral, legal, and social benefits, as well as the potential threats, posed by human cloning.

Proponents of human cloning assert that this is the only method of producing pluripotent stem cells with the same genetic make - up as adult patients.

Human cloning has been proposed as a means of generating human embryos that can be destroyed to obtain embryonic stem cHuman cloning has been proposed as a means of generating human embryos that can be destroyed to obtain embryonic stem chuman embryos that can be destroyed to obtain embryonic stem cells.

As pointed out at the time, this was in contradiction to statements he had made previously, inwhich he had repudiated the idea of human cloning: «Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in human cloning: «Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in Human cloning has grabbed people's imagination, but that is merely a diversion — and one we personally regret, and find distasteful,» he had said in The Second Creation, the book on Dolly's cloning which he co-authored with embryologist Kenneth Campbell in 2002.

The essays focus primarily on the issue of human cloning, but some give some attention to animal cloning as well.

Most of the essayists, but not all, see attempts to clone humans as, at the least, very problematic morally.

If eve came from Adams rib, they would share DNA (logically Adam's rib would have been Adams clone, not Eve, but disregarding logic as one must in such cases) therefore the relationship would be incestuous and would create humans with significant handicaps and disabilities, if anything at all.

Regarding the spectres of human cloning and the like, public opposition can be generally put down to the «yuk factor»: a gut reaction that as such is basically healthy.

However, in 2007 Professor Wilmut announced that he had decided to change to an alternative method of research pioneered in Japan, known as direct reprogramming or «de-differentiation», which could create human embryonic cells without using human eggs or cloning human embryos.

Although genes are recognized as influencing behavior and cognition, «genetically identical» does not mean altogether identical; almost no one would deny that identical twins, despite being natural human clones with identical DNA, are separate people, with separate experiences and not altogether overlapping personalities.

On Thursday, the United Nations» member states will consider two resolutions: One resolution would ban all human cloning methods, including efforts to use cloned embryonic stem cells to try and generate healthy tissues, or to treat degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's.

Critics say that the company has damaged the field more than once with its high - profile, controversial announcements, such as one describing the company's attempts to clone a human embryo1 in 2001.

As for the possible use of cloning to produce copies of humans, most ethicists» initial reaction is that such an action would be unconscionable — although in the U.S., unlike in the U.K. and many other nations, it is not explicitly illegal.

Nayernia says trying this approach in humans would spark controversy as it would involve creating embryonic clones of infertile men: «If we used this method in the clinic, it would raise ethical concerns.»

As cloning pioneers Rudolf Jaenisch and Ian Wilmut have argued, «if human cloning is attempted, those embryos that do not die early may live to become abnormal children and adults; both are troubling outcomes.»

These cloning experiments (known as somatic cell nuclear transfer), in addition to being unambiguously nonpresidential, require a rare and precious starting material: healthy human egg cells.

They view this as a test run for creating human embryonic stem cells in the same way (and according to the team, South Korean biologist Hwang Woo Suk seems to have accidentally accomplished this feat while executing his famously fraudulent human cloning experiment).

However, her basic premise, that genetically identical twins might be able to shed some light on the issue of human cloning, struck me as a very solid one.

«It sounds as if [they] are likely to proceed with cloning in humans despite animal data that raises concerns and worries about it,» says Mark Siegler, a doctor and ethicist at the University of Chicago.

Yet 30 % of American voters describe themselves as evangelicals, and the voices of this massive segment deserve to be heard, according to panel speaker James Childress, formerly of President Bill Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which informed the president on stem cell research, cloning, and human subjects research.

A year after receiving approval to study cloning in human cells, «we have yet to find a woman who's willing to participate as an egg donor,» he says.

He is part of the team that cloned the gene for the human T cell receptor in 1984, which he describes as «the Holy Grail of immunology.»

We can foresee cloned herds as living factories: Cows and pigs will churn out valuable human proteins in their milk or blood, and tissues and organs for transplantation.

He reported in May 2013 using the Dolly technique, known more formally as somatic cell nuclear transfer, to derive stem cells from cloned human embryos, including from a baby with an inherited disorder.

As a species, we crossed into a new dimension this year, one we will never be able to retreat from: We have developed the science and technology of cloning to the point that reproducing a human is undoubtedly already in progress.

As a result, in late June, more than a year after Science retracted the 2004 paper, researchers at ISC were able to claim the discovery of human parthenogenetic cell lines as their own in the journal Cloning and Stem CellAs a result, in late June, more than a year after Science retracted the 2004 paper, researchers at ISC were able to claim the discovery of human parthenogenetic cell lines as their own in the journal Cloning and Stem Cellas their own in the journal Cloning and Stem Cells.

Popular films such as Multiplicity feed these nightmares by obscuring the fact that cloning can not instantaneously yield a copy of an existing adult human being.

Some fear that people may use cloning to produce a subordinate class of humans created as tissue or organ donors.

But the favored reprogramming technique, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), otherwise known as research cloning, is fraught with ethical pitfalls as well as technical difficulties because it entails creating a human embryo by inserting an adult cell nucleus into an ooctye.

Remarkably, when Burns started writing the play 6 years ago as an undergraduate at York, human cloning was just as much science fiction for her as for John.

Moretta A, Vitale M, Bottino C, Orengo AM, Morelli L, Augugliaro R, Barbaresi M, Ciccone E, Moretta L. P58 molecules as putative receptors for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules in human natural killer (NK) cells: anti-p58 antibodies reconstitute lysis of MHC class I - protected cells in NK clones displaying different specificities.

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

After more debate, the government may change this allowing cloned human cells and embryos to be created for research purposes as long as they are destroyed after 14 days.

He was also a Fulbright Scholar, and was part of the team that cloned the world's first human embryo, as well as the first to successfully generate stem cells from adults using somatic - cell nuclear transfer (therapeutic cloning).

And reasoning, as many conservationists have, that humans have a harder time destroying things that have been anthropomorphized, Grant gave the clone a name.

The basic process, called nuclear transfer, for making a cloned human embryo is the same as for other animals.

The 1979 film «Parts: The Clonus Horror» and Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel «Never Let Me Go» both examine the prospect of clone farms as factories for spare human parts.