Sentences with phrase «of human embryos during»

The field has been dogged by political and religious opponents, who object to the destruction of human embryos during the harvest of cells.

Not exact matches

Due to the limited statistical and methodological certainty allowed by biological science, the occurrence of technical errors in biological experiments, the differences between human and animal embryo development, the rapidity by which the cloning procedure produces a totipotent zygote, and the philosophical and theological nature of the question, there is no biological experiment that will prove with moral certainty that a human zygote never exists during the OAR procedure.

«During development, both male and female embryos start out having certain fetal tissue called the Müllerian duct mesenchyme,» said Jose Teixeira, professor of reproductive biology in the College of Human Medicine and lead author of the federally funded study.

Human embryonic stem cells derived from affected embryos during a pre-implantation diagnostic (PGD), as well as the conversion of somatic cells, such as skin fibroblasts, into induced pluripotent stem cells by genetic manipulation, offer the unique opportunity to have access to a large spectrum of disease - specific cell models.

Christopher Reeve, Kevin Kline, Michael J. Fox and Mary Tyler Moore, among others, all made their way to Capitol Hill to testify in support of increased federal funding of hESCR (during her congressional testimony on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Ms. Moore famously said human embryos have «no more resemblance to a human being than a goldfish»)...

By labeling HAR1 molecules in human and macaque embryos, we discovered that the RNAs functioned in neurons during patterning and layout of the cortex, 6 a brain structure that expanded greatly in size during human evolution.7 Exactly which genes HAR1 is regulating remains to be determined.

During his campaign, George W. Bush said he opposed federal financing of «experimentation on embryonic stem cells that require live human embryos to be discarded or destroyed.»

This legislation is notable because the Swiss Constitution broadly prohibits research using human embryos and even sets controls over the number of eggs that may be fertilized and developed outside a woman's body during fertility treatments.