Sentences with phrase «embryos created after»

Although he never banned this research outright, President Bush limited federal funding for research to the embryonic stem cell lines that existed before August 2001, thus drawing a line at destroying human embryos created after that date.

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After months of discussion, the group drafted a call to ban all human cloning and to limit ESCR to the use of the «excess» embryos created in the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF).

After a successful IVF procedure in 2007 brought us our daughter in 2008, we tried again so that we could fulfill our commitment to give every embryo we created a chance at life.

Robl and Stice, in collaboration with the biotech company Genzyme of Cambridge, Massachusetts, have already created embryos that contain the human gene for albumin protein, which helps restore the blood's osmotic pressure after blood loss.

Proponents of ESC research counter that most of the new cell lines could be derived from donated, unused human embryos created by couples seeking fertility treatment, and that more than a third of zygotes fail to implant after conception, so those would be lost by chance anyway.

After many attempts, CC was created by coaxing the nucleus of a cell from a calico cat into an enucleated egg; an electrical spark prompted the hybrid to divide, and the resulting embryo was then transferred into a surrogate mother.

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 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 after 14 days.

He has most recently used the knowledge of how a heart is built in an embryo to create beating heart muscle cells from connective tissue in adult animals, effectively regenerating healthy muscle cells from scar tissue after a heart attack.

But Australia does allow the use of embryos remaining after assisted reproduction, as long as those embryos were created before 5 April 2002.

Currently, gamete donors sign a form giving the IVF patient legal authority to determine the use of embryos created with their gametes after infertility treatment has been completed.