Sentences with phrase «embryonic research»

And editing the DNA in embryos is controversial even among people who think human embryonic research is acceptable.

Defeating the proponents of embryonic research on their own utilitarian terms was worth doing, even if it is only a partial and temporary victory.

Opponents of research on human embryos might contend that reprogramming happened because of the federal restrictions on embryonic research, but Thomson believes the stigma on the field made researchers wary and delayed the discovery of reprogramming by several years.

For the second straight year, the U.S. House and Senate have each passed a measure to allow federally funded embryonic research.

Miss Widdecombe's preferred speech argued against embryonic research, while Lord Healey picked Brigadier Powell's 1959 excoriation of British brutality at the Hola camp in Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau emergency.

With federal funding for human embryonic research no longer an issue, advocates move on to other policy issues

She would rescind Bush's 2001 ban on funding of embryonic research that creates new cell lines and / or destroys embryos.

«If human embryonic research is to be done at all, it should be paid for with non-taxpayer funds.»

At the same time, those who claimed that embryonic research was the only promising way forward can unite around a promising new technique that presents no ethical dilemmas.

Stem cell researchers maintain that whatever the potential of adult stem cells, embryonic research could help them achieve it.

That's the position of Marcy Darnovsky, who heads the Center for Genetics & Society, a watchdog group based in California that supports human embryonic research.

The first amendment would force the state to spend $ 20 million annually for 10 years on the embryonic research, which is nowhere close to helping patients.