Sentences with phrase «vitro embryos created»

This legislation requires that spouses or common - law partners provide joint consent to use or donate in vitro embryos created for their reproductive use, and also allows one spouse or partner to unilaterally withdraw his or her previously given consent, in writing, prior to the embryos being used, thawed or designated for a specific purpose.

Not exact matches

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

After months of discussion, the group drafted a call to ban all human cloning and to limit ESCR to the use of the «excess» embryos created in the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Hundreds of thousands of «leftover» embryos have been created through in - vitro fertilization, and will only be destroyed if not used for research.

Gestational surrogacy, on the other hand, uses a process called in vitro fertilization to create an embryo.

Australian researchers have developed a method for screening embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) to select the ones that have the best shot of developing into healthy babies.

Last January, the House of Representatives voted, 253 to 174, to pass a bill, H.R. 3, that would allow researchers to use leftover embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics to create new lines of embryonic stem cells, and in April, the Senate passed its version of the bill.

Today, Roe said three outside labs have determined those two lines were not derived from cloned embryos, but instead came from embryos created by in vitro fertilization at MizMedi Hospital in Seoul, which collected oocytes for Hwang's research.

Sometimes human embryos are created through in vitro fertilization with the intention of implanting them in a mother's womb to develop and be born, but for one reason or another, they are never used that way.

Switching topics now, as you may know, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, is the process of creating human embryos in a laboratory, by combining a sperm and an egg.

Benedict argued that non-conjugal reproduction such as in vitro fertilization had created «new problems» ¯ the freezing of human embryos, for instance, and the selective abortion of medically implanted embryos, together with pre-implantation diagnosis, embryonic stem - cell research, and attempts at human cloning.

Interestingly, when the embryo question was presented in the context of the various uses of in vitro fertilization (IVF)-- that is, the context of what is done with human embryos once they're created in the lab — fewer than 40 % of respondents supported even the freezing of embryos for later use.

These include in vitro editing of primordial germ cells that are subsequently transmitted through germ - line chimeras to produce genome edited offspring, and direct injections to developing embryos, creating germ - line chimeras in ovo (in the egg), which can then be bred to produce genome edited offspring.

Yes, it removed the Bush moratorium, but it only allows federal funding for new cell lines derived from embryos created for in vitro fertilization.

Some scientists wish to use in vitro fertilization techniques to create human embryos solely for research purposes without plans to implant the embryo in a mother's womb to develop and be born.

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.

Loeb, who filed the papers in California under the name John Doe, is looking to stop Vergara (named as Jane Doe in the court documents) from having the option to destroy the embryos the two created via in vitro fertilization.