Sentences with phrase «frozen human embryos»

Ten years after the events of the previous movie, a spaceship filled with slumbering humans and frozen human embryos is taking a long trek to a distant world in order to establish a colony there.

However, some consider human embryonic stem cell research controversial because, in some cases, the new stem cell lines are derived frozen human embryos that have been donated for research.

They've certainly been successful in making their voices heard in recent years — for example, over the question of what to do with the 400,000 frozen human embryos left over from in vitro fertilization with no viable future.

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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.

Because fertilized human embryos are far more accessible than unfertilized eggs, which can not be frozen and stored, extending the result to humans could lower the practical barriers against creating human embryonic stem cells to study and potentially treat disease.

(Collins, an evangelical Christian, also explained how he reconciles his support for hESC research with his beliefs: Although he thinks the human embryo «deserves moral respect,» he balances that with the ethical benefits of using frozen embryos from fertility treatments that would otherwise be discarded to help develop treatments for patients.

But the process means that US scientists - already stymied by years of government funding freezes linked to controversy over the destruction of human embryos - often find themselves blocked because other universities or private companies have already secured exclusive rights.

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.

Interestingly, when the embryo question was presented in the context of the various uses of in vitro fertilization (IVF)-- that is, the context of what is done with human embryos once they're created in the lab — fewer than 40 % of respondents supported even the freezing of embryos for later use.

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).

In March 2002, a research group from King's College in London received one of the first licenses from the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to isolate stem cells from human embryos and establish cultures of stem cells that could be propagated or frHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to isolate stem cells from human embryos and establish cultures of stem cells that could be propagated or frhuman embryos and establish cultures of stem cells that could be propagated or frozen.

As the futuristic tale unfolds, we find the spaceship Covenant hurtling through the ether on a mission to colonize a distant star with its cargo of 2,000 cryogenic humans and 1,140 frozen embryos.