Sentences with phrase «embryo for research»

Even fewer backed the creation of embryos for research purposes.

However, it's far too early to see the approach as a way to avoid the use of human embryos for research or potential treatments.

Eventually, human embryos will need to be made and tested, a process that will be slowed by restrictions on creating embryos for research.

MPs have voted in favour of allowing scientists to create hybrid embryos for research that supporters say could bring advances in medical treatment.

The goal of the procedure isn't to produce embryos for research parts but to provide parents with a healthy child.

It is hoped cells taken from sick children could be used to create human or hybrid embryos for research, improving understanding of diseases.

For example, they must derive their cell lines only from frozen embryos left over from fertility treatments and must not create embryos for research.

Indeed, to protect women from economic and scientific exploitation, and in deference to the moral and political ambiguity that embryos carry with them, no nation allows the unrestricted commodification of embryos, and some, including Germany, have bans on destroying embryos for research purposes.

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.

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.

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.

In the paper Lo et al. write that, «Using embryos for research without permission of third - party oocyte donors could fail to respect donors as persons, breaching a fundamental principle of bioethics.»

The bill includes the creation of human - animals embryos for research as well as reforms that would allow lesbian couples and single women to access IVF.

The following month, researchers at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created embryos that lack a gene required for placental growth, potentially appeasing those who object to the creation of viable embryos for research.

Should scientists and research labs be allowed to buy and sell embryos for research purposes or should the embryos be available for research only if the parents donate them?

These rather confusing responses suggest that the respondents» views about the ethics of destroying human embryos for research remained largely unchanged when presented with the new alternative technique.

At least one additional member (Charles Krauthammer), though opposed to the deliberate creation by cloning of embryos for research in which they would be destroyed, supported the revocation of President Bush's funding restrictions on the use of embryos that had been produced by in vitro fertilization for reproductive purposes, but were left unused in cryopreservation units in assisted reproduction facilities.

Some people see simply no ethical problem at all with destroying embryos for research, and for them the study of embryos for its own sake is certainly worth public support (we support all kinds of basic research after all, rightfully so, and this basic research could be of more value than most).

... The destruction of or cloning of human embryos for research purposes raises profound moral and ethical challenges,» Wicker said.

Ronald Cole - Turner, editor of this volume, while somewhat reluctant to endorse cloning aimed at gestating and giving birth to a child, is, on the whole, supportive of cloning embryos for research purposes (though he thinks it would be wrong to carry out such research without a more thorough public discussion than we have thus far had).

If their results are confirmed by others, they eliminate yet another argument from the arsenal of those who want to use taxpayer dollars to support and encourage the destruction of embryos for research.

Yet a mistaken judgment by scientists, that OAR works in mice, could lead authorities in the Catholic Church to the decision to approve creating crippled human embryos for research.

Each of these proposals has considerable merit as an alternative to the generation and destruction of embryos for research» yet for each there are also significant questions about scientific feasibility and ethical soundness.

The ANT - OAR proposal represent a scientifically and morally sound means of obtaining human pluripotent stem cells that does not compromise either the science or the deeply held moral convictions of those who oppose the destructive use of human embryos for research» which is a creative approach that can be embraced by both the anything - goes camp and the nothing - goes.

If couples do not elect to freeze the extra embryos for later use, they can donate their embryos for research, for stem cells research, to another couple, to an embryo adoption agency, or simply discard them.

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.

While conservatives in Congress took turns echoing George W. Bush's opposition to destroying human embryos for research, Lensch's colleague Paul Lerou stepped into a small room behind a heavy black curtain to check up on a line of nonpresidential embryonic stem cells.

Scientists in London have been granted permission to edit the genomes of human embryos for research, UK fertility regulators announced today.

This justifies the use of human embryos for this research, say proponents.

Clinton made the prohibition explicit in December 1994, when he forbade the agency from funding the creation of human embryos for research.

As both an academic studying the basic biology of mammalian development and as an IVF consultant with access to human egg cells and human embryos for research purposes, he is one of just a few scientists in a position to push a revolution in thinking about how — and whether — life begins.

U.K. first to approve gene editing of human embryos for research.

Do you support or oppose allowing scientists to combine human and animal cells in an embryo for research?

On the question of human cloning, rather surprisingly, the respondents expressed somewhat stronger opposition to the cloning of human embryos for research than to cloning for reproduction.

Does the possibility of this way forward — that is, using skin cells to create stem cells instead of human embryos — make you more likely or less likely to support the use and destruction of embryos for research?

Some have also argued that at the very least this new discovery means that federal taxpayers should not fund the destruction of embryos for research (which could proceed in the private sector) and public money should support this new alternative.

In an interview with the New York Times, Yamanaka recalled looking at a human embryo through a microscope several years earlier:» When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters... I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research.

Laws in the UK also allow for the creation of embryos for research.

So even if homosexual reproduction is out, there are a plethera of ethically controversial scenarios, especially the creation and destruction of embryos for research and human enhancement.

Some groups that oppose destroying embryos for research have hailed the new cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells, as a way to eliminate the need for stem cell research based on embryonic material.

«The suggestion that the creation of cloned embryos for research will inevitably lead to the birth of cloned babies is simple scare mongering.