Sentences with phrase «reproductive purposes»

The statement says the group wasn't able to agree on what, if any, applications might justify editing human embryos, sperm, or eggs for reproductive purposes.

«We can do some pretty nutty things when we're madly in love,» says Fisher, «but I think these findings help people realise that they're not going crazy, they're in fact feeling a very ancient and primitive drive that evolved for important reproductive purposes.»

As for saying you want to have a baby, most people that are looking for a match are looking to have children in the future, but saying it too soon may make them feel like they are being used for your own reproductive purposes.

Sperm and egg from skin cells eventually might be used for reproductive purposes, enabling parenthood at any age using tissue from either the living or dead.

«We can do some pretty nutty things when we're madly in love,» says Fisher, «but I think these findings help people realize that they're not going crazy, they're in fact feeling a very ancient and primitive drive that evolved for important reproductive purposes.»

Similarly, when one examines the treatment of slaves encouraged by the biblical writers, it is decidedly more generous than that of other cultures... although the categorization of slaves as property, the use of slaves for reproductive purposes, and leniency regarding beatings, remains troubling, or «needing further movement,» according to Webb.

For the Catholic Church, however, nature always carries a teleological implication, and since the sex organs are also called reproductive organs, it represents an abuse of their function to make use of them in ways that violate their reproductive purposes.

The term «cloning» means the asexual reproduction of identical copies of an original, and it is human cloning (and to a lesser extent animal cloning) for reproductive purposes that causes considerable public disquiet.

ACT's announcement stoked fears that scientists were trying to clone humans for reproductive purposes — and conflated reproductive cloning and human - embryonic - stem - cell research in many people's minds.

And as with many behaviors that occur outside of our awareness, researchers suspect these opposing desires may have arisen because they serve a reproductive purpose.

At least one additional member (Charles Krauthammer), though opposed to the deliberate creation by cloning of embryos for research in which they would be destroyed, supported the revocation of President Bush's funding restrictions on the use of embryos that had been produced by in vitro fertilization for reproductive purposes, but were left unused in cryopreservation units in assisted reproduction facilities.

Other critics argued that the bill would weaken Iowa's ban on human cloning, even though the bill expressly prohibits cloning for reproductive purposes.

They were able to use embryos that had been created through in vitro fertilization for reproductive purposes but that had ultimately not been selected because they carried gene mutations.

Thus, in the past five years, much of the scientific and ethical debate about somatic cell nuclear transfer has focused on its two potential applications: 1) for reproductive purposes, i.e., to produce a child, or 2) for producing a source of ES cells for research.

Pollens are tiny, egg - shaped powdery grains released from flowering plants, which are carried by the wind or insects and serve to cross-pollinate other plants of the same type for reproductive purposes.

Gelatin silver print with pigment embellishments for reproductive purposes, image / sheet size 9 x 7 3/4 in.

Gelatin silver print with pigment embellishments probably used for reproductive purposes, image / sheet size 3 1/4 x 4 9/16 in.