Sentences with phrase «embryos for research purposes»

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.

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

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?

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.

Not exact matches

But organizers of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnancy.

Research on a new «gene editing» technology known as CRISPR — which theoretically allows any cell or organism to have its genome altered — is advancing exponentially, with early research ongoing on human embryos created for that Research on a new «gene editing» technology known as CRISPR — which theoretically allows any cell or organism to have its genome altered — is advancing exponentially, with early research ongoing on human embryos created for that research ongoing on human embryos created for that purpose.

That would, of course, mean the creation solely for purposes of research of human embryos» human subjects who are not really best described as preimplantation embryos.

A panel of nineteen experts appointed by the National Institutes of Health has recommended government funding for conceiving human embryos in the laboratory for the sole purpose of using them as materials for research.

His article is occasioned by the National Institutes of Health proposal to fund producing human embryos in the laboratory solely for the purpose of research (see «The Inhuman Use of Human Beings,» FT, January 1995).

It is, though, a little hard to give cash value to this phrase when we are contemplating creating an embryo, using it for research purposes, and disposing of it at or before fourteen days.

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).

The embryo could then be implanted in a mother's womb to develop to birth or used for research purposes, which would ultimately result in it being destroyed.

PERSON 2: It is unethical to destroy human embryos for the purposes of research because doing so destroys human embryos that are human beings and could otherwise have developed and grown like every other human being.

Do you support or oppose creating embryos to destroy them for scientific research purposes?

In that instance, do you support or oppose using and therefore destroying those unwanted embryos for scientific research purposes?

Some scientists wish to use in vitro fertilization techniques to create human embryos solely for research purposes without plans to implant the embryo in a mother's womb to develop and be born.

The process results in a human embryo which can then be implanted in a mother's womb to develop to birth, frozen for later transfer to a mother, or discarded or used for research purposes (and then destroyed).

«It is legal to do this for research purposes on early human embryos in the UK with a licence from the HFEA, but the 14 day limit applies and it would be illegal to implant the embryos into a woman for further development.

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.

Both methods — using existing fertilized embryos and creating new embryos specifically for research purposes — are controversial.

The research could only be for non-commercial, «therapeutic» purposes, and the proposal bans the creation of embryos specifically for research purposes.

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.