Sentences with phrase «cloned embryos for research»

Kass ably led the council members in a long debate on cloning, with the result that earlier this year they came out in opposition to human cloning but divided on the use of cloned embryos for research purposes.

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Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human - animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.

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.

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.

Some feminists who have no problem with the creation or research use of «excess» IVF embryos adamantly oppose «therapeutic» cloning for ESCR.

It may also become increasingly difficult for any argument against any research on early embryos to command a hearing (including arguments against «therapeutic» cloning) as other procedures that involve embryo selection and disposal become more common.

But it might also mean the attempt to clone human embryos for research purposes - and this, in fact, is where the real focus of scientific interest is at the moment.

In 2005 Professor Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the Sheep, was granted a licence to clone human embryos for medical research - a decision which attracted considerable criticism.

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Professor Wilmut stressed that he and his team had no intention of trying to produce cloned humans, but intended only to use the embryos for research into the distressing degenerative condition Motor Neuron Disease.

In November 2001, scientists from Advanced Cell Technologies, a biotechnology company in Massachusetts, announced that they had cloned the first human embryos for the purpose of advancing therapeutic research.

Some scientists, such as Kevin Eggan at Harvard, were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).

Stem cell researchers call them «a major step in the right direction,» although some were disappointed that NIH didn't open the door to the use of embryos created for research purposes — including through somatic cell nuclear transfer (cloning) and parthenogenesis (from an unfertilized egg).

Some bioethicists have called for a new international ban that would clearly prohibit the implantation of a human clone in part because of the tantalizing research uses for nascent embryos.

The report suggested legislation be introduced to ban cloning for reproduction, but that research on embryos up to 14 days should go ahead because of the «enormous» medical benefits.

But yesterday health minister Tessa Jowell told the House of Commons that «more evidence is required» of the need for research on cloned human embryos and of its potential risks and benefits.

Today, Roe said three outside labs have determined those two lines were not derived from cloned embryos, but instead came from embryos created by in vitro fertilization at MizMedi Hospital in Seoul, which collected oocytes for Hwang's research.

Even when described in terms of the potential to cure some particular diseases — an approach used in most polling conducted by advocates of embryo - destroying research — cloning for research remained unacceptable to most respondents.

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.

Public opinion polls show significant support for limited kinds of ESC research (no cloning; no creation of embryos for research purposes).

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.

Most recently, in February 2003, Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, and others introduced legislation that would expand research options by allowing cells to be newly isolated from embryos, including cloned embryos — those created for research purposes only and not through fertilization.