Sentences with phrase «implantation of human embryos»

There should be a complete ban on the implantation of a human embryo created by the application of cloning technology into a womb, or any treatment of such a human embryo intended to result in its development into a viable infant.

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The court reasoned that the treaty's drafters were actually concerned only to protect life from the moment of implantation, and that the human embryo is not a person under the American Convention because it is not a person under certain treaties elsewhere in the world.

But the summit's organizers concluded that actually trying to produce a human pregnancy from such modified germ cells or embryos, either through in vitro fertilization (IVF) with the sperm or eggs or the implantation of an embryo, is currently «irresponsible» because of ongoing safety concerns and a lack of societal consensus.

Some bioethicists have called for a new international ban that would clearly prohibit the implantation of a human clone in part because of the tantalizing research uses for nascent embryos.

Opponents said that the measure should have banned somatic cell nuclear transfer; it criminalized only the «implantation» of an embryo into a woman to create a human clone.

So this language in effect means alterations of embryonic cells can not be done in the United States if there is any intent to treat a human being, including implantation of an altered embryo into a woman's uterus.

A new technique that allows embryos to develop in vitro beyond the implantation stage (when the embryo would normally implant into the womb) has been developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge allowing them to analyse for the first time key stages of human embryo development up to 13 days after fertilisation.