Sentences with phrase «involving embryo research»

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It may also become increasingly difficult for any argument against any research on early embryos to command a hearing (including arguments against «therapeutic» cloning) as other procedures that involve embryo selection and disposal become more common.

Former Governor Martin O'Malley (D — MD) has supported stem - cell research involving human embryos (although he is a devout member of the Catholic Church, which has opposed many forms of embryonic stem cell research).

They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the precise means by which embryos must be destroyed in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»

► The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has put funding on hold for experiments that involve «mixing human stem cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop» while it «reconsiders its rules» for this type of research, Gretchen Vogel reported Wednesday.

The report, from a committee made up of 11 members of Parliament, also recommends legalizing research involving embryos of chimeras and hybrids, which includes cells created by fusing human and animal nuclei.

«Both initial research and ultimately treatment involves early embryos or eggs,» says Leach Scully.

By that reasoning, even research involving a propane tank that took place in a lab adjacent to a place where embryos were stored would violate the law, the opinion says.

It is dominated by Republican appointees, but some observers believe that is irrelevant because the legal issues do not involve the ethics of research involving embryos, but whether the courts should defer to the way several Administrations have interpreted Dickey - Wicker.

NIH has had an unwritten moratorium on research involving human embryos and in vitro fertilization since the early 1980s.

But last April he also voted for the HOPEAct, a Bush - supported «compromise» bill that would open up federal funding for research that does not involve the creation, destruction, or injury of embryos; seeing as there are not yet any embryonic stem cells lines that meet this condition (ACT hasn't yet proven that their technique poses no «risk of injury»), the HOPE funding would only be available for non-embryonic stemcells.

In an advance that could solve many of the ethical and technical issues involved in stem cell research, two groups of scientists have independently converted human skin cells directly into stem cells without creating or destroying embryos.

A week later, a network of stem - cell researchers, bioethicists and policy experts called the Hinxton Group, said that after meetings in Manchester, UK, they had concluded that research involving genome editing in human embryos has «tremendous value to basic research».

Five days earlier, 70 House members led by abortion opponent Jay Dickey (R - AR) had written an equally harsh letter to Shalala, complaining that HHS is misreading a recent law that bans U.S. funding of research that involves the destruction of human embryos.

In particular, the research identified several genes regulated by methylation in the egg that are involved in cell adhesion and migration — both vital properties for cells of the developing placenta in establishing connections with maternal tissues to support embryo development.

In 1994, when the federal government was contemplating funding for research involving human embryos, the NIH Embryo Research Panel concluded that just this kind of experiment was ethically apprresearch involving human embryos, the NIH Embryo Research Panel concluded that just this kind of experiment was ethically apprResearch Panel concluded that just this kind of experiment was ethically appropriate.

At first blush, these words, known as the Dickey - Wicker Amendment, might appear to prohibit government funding of ESC research altogether, because ESC research necessarily involves the destruction of human embryos.

Federal officials are proposing to end a moratorium on funding for research that involves transplanting human stem cells into animal embryos, a controversial practice that produces organisms know as «chimeras.»

Finally, he opened the door to funding research involving stem cell lines created by producing human embryos by somatic cell nuclear transfer or other means specifically for research in which they are killed.

For now, at least, there will be no funding of research involving embryos created just for destruction.

He could have left the funding of research involving cell lines created by the destruction of human embryos in place, and led the charge to promote ethically unproblematic non-embryo-destructive forms of stem cell science.

But stem cells are a hot political topic, because researching stem cells from human embryos typically involves destroying those embryos.