Sentences with phrase «human embryos against»
Since then, the research has pitted groups that question the ethics of harvesting stem cells from human embryos against those that hope the line of research could result in important medical breakthroughs.
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Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life.
Experimental procedures can be licit if they «respect the life and integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but rather are directed to its healing, the improvement of its condition of health, or its individual survival»; but the mere «use of human embryos or fetuses as an object of experimentation» is «a crime against their dignity as human beings.»
In a step that some of the nation's leading scientists have long warned against and that has never before been accomplished, biologists in Oregon have edited the DNA of viable human embryos efficiently and apparently with few mistakes, according to a report in Technology Review.
The report, part of a reevaluation of the country's regulation of medical and scientific use of human embryos, goes against mainstream public and scientific opinion in many areas.
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.
In an emphatic letter published today in Science, 11 researchers argue that NIH should reverse its decision against funding studies in which scientists implant human stem cells into early, nonhuman embryos.
To determine how valid the objection against funding of human embryonic stem cell research is because of its use of human embryos, it's important to understand two key aspects of hESCs» unique biology and derivation.
Those against stem - cell research using human embryos because they believe it destroys human life are, for the most part, also against the blending of species because they believe it degrades human life.