Sentences with phrase «involving embryos created»
For now, at least, there will be no funding of research involving embryos created just for destruction.
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The medical process involved in IVF uses embryos created from the genetic material of the intended parents or a donor.
Embryo donation does, however, share some similarities because it involves non-genetic parenting, and for that reason is sometimes called «Embryo Adoption» by adoption agencies that use the adoption model to facilitate transfer from the parents who created the embryos to the intended parents.
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.»
This technique is already used with great success for infertile human couples and involves a single sperm being injected into an egg through a thin glass pipette to create an embryo which is then transferred to a surrogate female.
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.
Scientists and ethicists are taking a closer look at ways to create pluripotent human stem cells without involving embryos.
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.
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.
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.
Twenty years ago, when Canadians were first debating how best to address potential conflicts over frozen embryos, the government - appointed Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies recommended that gamete providers be jointly required to make decisions regarding the disposition of their embryos prior to gametes being retrieved or embryos created, and to indicate their preferences in consent forms that would be binding for the clinic involved.