Sentences with phrase «embryonic human clone»

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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.

Scientists looking for new methods to make human tissue have successfully used cloning technology to create embryonic stem cells from skin cells.

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Example in point: Opposition to embryonic stem cell / human cloning research: It isn't anti science to oppose treating nascent human life like a corn crop or manufacturing embryos, anymore than it is anti science than the Animal Welfare Act the proscribes what can and can't be done in scientific research with some mammals.

The increasing use of in - vitro - fertilisation techniques, and the emergence of new possibilities involving human cloning, mixing of human and animal genetic elements, and the use of embryonic stem cells for research, among other things, brought the need for further teaching.

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.

AAAS, the world's largest general science society, has urged the United Nations to support embryonic cloning for research or «therapeutic» purposes, but ban all efforts to use cloning for human reproduction.

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.

ACT's announcement stoked fears that scientists were trying to clone humans for reproductive purposes — and conflated reproductive cloning and human - embryonic - stem - cell research in many people's minds.

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.»

Obtaining embryonic stem cells through cloning would mean breeding human life specifically for destruction.

But after learning that work by South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang had been faked, the journal Science retracted Hwang's landmark papers from 2004 and 2005, which reported the first human embryonic stem cells from cloned embryos.

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).

Paying for human eggs, many bioethicists argue, commodifies a human resource; Sandel, for example, a proponent of both research cloning and embryonic stem cell research, opposes the idea of financial inducement for what he calls «human reproductive capacity.»

THE world's first cloned human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are here, but they can't yet be used to grow tissues for transplant because they have an extra set of chromosomes.

Many scientists argue that so - called research cloning, in which cloned human embryos might be used to produce embryonic stem (ES) cells, could be a boon to medicine.

Amid all this, are you still trying to achieve your first dream, harvesting embryonic stem cells from human clones?

Astronomy doesn't have to bother with issues involving embryonic stem cells, human cloning, or morning - after pills.

In February 2004 Hwang and his research group reported the first embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned human embryo.

They also touched off the most serious moral and ethical debate so far over both embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.

In 2006, Woo Suk Hwang had to retract two papers published in Science in which his team claimed it had used the technique employed in cloning Dolly the sheep to create human embryonic stem cells matched to specific people who had various diseases.

A new paper in the journal Cell claiming to have achieved breakthrough stem cell work — using cloning to create personalized human embryonic stem cells — is coming under serious scrutiny.

One team in Japan, and another in the US, have independently shown it is possible to produce embryonic - like stem cells directly from a patient's own skin cells without having to create and destroy a cloned human embryo first.

But no one has yet succeeded in making human embryonic stem cells by cloning.

If I recall correctly, his paper had been published in Science, and it had been fast - tracked in what seemed transparently to be part of a political effort to sell the public on human cloning to produce patient - specific embryonic stem cells.

The state constitutional amendment now protects the right to conduct research to produce embryonic stem cells, while banning cloning to produce a human baby.

Though Hwang Woo - suk, a South Korean scientist claimed to have created the first human embryonic clone and derived a stem - cell line from it in 2004 his work was later shown to be fraudulent.

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.

John Gearhart, one of the first scientists to isolate, in 1998, human embryonic stem cells, also downplayed the therapeutic value of human cloning, saying «the more we learn about reprogramming, the more I think IPS will be the one of choice.»

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This work is highly relevant to the issues of human reproductive cloning and research on human embryonic stem cells.

The backgrounder below provides summary main points and sources on the position of current NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins in support of human embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and the creation of ethically - questionable human - animal chimeras.

The bill, Senate File 162, carves out an exception to Iowa's 2002 ban on human cloning allowing researchers to use cloning techniques to produce embryonic stem cells for medical study.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com)-- As the Senate prepares to tackle the thorny issue of forcing taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research in the coming weeks, two senators are reintroducing a bill that would institute a national ban on all forms of human cloning.

«When the [embryonic stem cell research bill] comes up, we were not able to get a clean shot at a prohibition on human cloning, which is why we're introducing the bill now,» he said.

It is a drama comparable to those of bestselling author Jodi Picoult, complete with a moral and ethical dilemma involving the production of human embryonic stem cells and reproductive transplantation; also known as cloning.