Sentences with phrase «human embryo research»

Attempts to find out why this occurs have been hampered by political constraints on human embryo research in the United States.

«Everything we talked about was about research directly on the embryo,» for example, to improve on infertility treatment or better understand cancer biology, says R. Alta Charo, a law professor and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School who was a member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel in the mid-1990s, which considered how embryos might be used in research.

In 1994, the law forbids strictly human embryo research in France.

Representative Joe Barton (R - TX), chair of the House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, wrote to Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on 6 March saying that he is looking into how Hughes «violated a ban on federal funding of human embryo research.»

The NIH Human Embryo Research Panel's chief ethicist, Professor Ronald Green, proposed that the intelligent and articulate members of a society should vote on whether other members of the species deserve the status of «personhood.»

NIH determined, however, that a congressional ban on human embryo research prohibited it from supporting this work.

«Other research methods, including studies in mice, suggested a later and more focussed role for OCT4, so our results highlight the need for human embryo research.»

The latest is an eighteen - page reflection on «The Ethics of Human Embryo Research and the Brave New World.»

In October 1996 — after Congress enacted a ban on human embryo research — NIH quietly cut off Hughes's funding.

The Crossbench peer's Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill - which is being supported by the Free Conscience campaign - would apply to the withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment, human embryo research and activity linked to preparing, supporting or performing an abortion.

After carefully studying the Report of the Human Embryo Research Panel, we....

WASHINGTON — Mark Hughes, an internationally known leader in DNA diagnostics, has resigned from Georgetown University after coming under fire for allegedly failing to honor a ban on human embryo research.

Science's picks for Areas to watch in 2017 are human embryo research, Zika vaccine trials, the search for Planet Nine, and the impacts on research of the U.S. election and «Brexit» vote.

Congress ruled out all human embryo research funded by the entire Department of Health and Human Services, NIH's parent agency, in language in the 1996 and 1997 appropriations bills.

A French high court advised lifting that country's ban on human embryo research, for example, and a U.S. presidential advisory panel recommended that public funds be available for all types of stem cell research.

Many observers who are otherwise opposed to human embryo research have argued, however, that despite the likely ultimate destruction of excess embryos after IVF, the desire of a couple to have a child is such a strong moral good that it justifies the procedure.

U.S. labs that are known to be active in human embryo research have not announced any plans to proceed with gene - editing experiments.

Congress's restriction on human embryo research, he said, «puts us at a competitive disadvantage» with respect to Britain, «where many major discoveries have been made in human development.»