Sentences with phrase «questions of embryonic stem cell research»

In 2002, when George W. Bush announced the names of his appointees to the President's Council on Bioethics, there were liberal bioethicists who complained that the President had «stacked» the council with «religious conservatives» who shared his views on questions of embryonic stem cell research and «therapeutic cloning.»

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But just how close adult and reprogrammed stem cells can come to matching the capabilities of embryonic stem cells has become a contentious question in the debate over whether the federal government should continue funding research on embryonic lines.

We should not only question the construct of the «ethics of curing,» as I will show, but we also need to look critically at reservations toward research on embryonic stem cells as they are expressed in our society.

Prescinding from the ethical questions, my own view is that there are scientifically interesting things that can come of embryonic stem - cell research, but that even without regulation, it wouldn't be central.

Almost 40 % of those who claimed some knowledge about the research in the earlier question believed, incorrectly, that embryonic stem cells had yielded therapeutic results, compared to only 23 % of those who said they were unfamiliar with the research.

I think a lot of people were led to believe — and to what extent scientists were responsible for this is an interesting question — that if only the regulations were relaxed, embryonic stem - cell science would be central to our medical research and practice going into the future, and that it would massively alleviate suffering and produce cures for dreaded diseases.