Sentences with phrase «of human reproductive cloning»
«This forces us to address the issues of human reproductive cloning.
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This work is highly relevant to the issues of human reproductive cloning and research on human embryonic stem cells.
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My basis for flatly opposing reproductive and research cloning is that it offers too little human benefit at the cost of too much likely harm, not that it is an offense against human dignity.
Ian Wilmut is now the professor of reproductive biology at the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University, and in February 2005 he was granted a licence by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to proceed to make human clHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to proceed to make human clhuman clones.
«It gave critics plenty of ammunition to insist that if stem - cell research was funded, human reproductive cloning would be funded too,» says Caplan.
BAC, however, calls for an outright ban on human reproductive cloning and affirms that scientists caught doing so would face the full force of the law, although final details of penalties for offenders have not been spelled out.
Paying for human eggs, many bioethicists argue, commodifies a human resource; Sandel, for example, a proponent of both research cloning and embryonic stem cell research, opposes the idea of financial inducement for what he calls «human reproductive capacity.»
Less expensive and more efficient than the process that produced Dolly the sheep, the iPS approach also would skirt the language of many current prohibitions against human reproductive cloning.
Lanza: When it comes to human reproductive cloning, there are a lot of very serious concerns in the scientific and medical community, not only scientific.
The thread to follow here is that the invention of nuclear transfer technology — the means to move genes between cells and also backward in time — started the countdown to human reproductive cloning.
A reproductive specialist from Kentucky, Zavos made the prediction this past May in a hearing before a congressional subcommittee investigating the issue of cloning humans.
That's why many biologists believe reproductive cloning of human beings is unethical.
The paper points out that all cloning is reproductive and reflects on the immediate outcome of human cloning — a human embryo — while examining the terminology used by cloning advocates to obscure the facts.
It is the first detailed study of the physiology of a cloned animal from birth and the scientists say the results «should be taken into account in debates on reproductive cloning in human beings.»
«If there is a link, it will provide further evidence of the dangers inherent in reproductive cloning and the irresponsibility of anybody who is trying to extend such work to humans.»
«Whether used to bring cloned human embryos to live birth (so - called «reproductive» cloning), or to exploit them as sources of «spare parts» for other humans (so - called «therapeutic» cloning), human cloning diminishes us all,» McQuade added.
Below is the full text of the Senate's letter, followed by a summary of the legislation to ban human reproductive cloning and allow nuclear transplantation research to continue.
Summary of the legislation to ban human reproductive cloning and allow nuclear transplantation research to continue:
Attempts at human reproductive cloning are ethically unacceptable to the vast majority of the scientific community and the general public.
«The BMA is opposed to the deliberate creation of genetically identical individuals and welcomed the passage of the Human Reproductive Cloning Act 2001, which made human reproductive cloning illHuman Reproductive Cloning Act 2001, which made human reproductive cloning iCloning Act 2001, which made human reproductive cloning illhuman reproductive cloning icloning illegal.
Several groups have concluded that reproductive cloning of human beings creates ethical and scientific risks that society should not tolerate.
It is a drama comparable to those of bestselling author Jodi Picoult, complete with a moral and ethical dilemma involving the production of human embryonic stem cells and reproductive transplantation; also known as cloning.