Word: embryos
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Certain types of studies with human-animal chimeras should be banned for now. Human ESCs should not be implanted in the embryo of another primate where, potentially, a partly human brain could develop, but implants in mice would be permitted. Animals seeded with human ESCs should not reproduce...
...human embryo should be grown in a lab more than 14 days--when the first primitive streak of a nervous system appears. (This is already common practice for in-vitro-fertilization labs...
Human ESCs may not at present be transplanted into an early human embryo--a promising avenue for therapy but one that raises the specter of bioengineered humans...
...speech focused on the ethical problems of creating human life in the form of a human embryo only to destroy it. He said that human life should be respected from the very earliest stage...
...should only fund “ethical and promising research.” He said that adult stem cell research meets that criteria because they have led to treatment in “at least 58 illnesses” and don’t require the destruction of an embryo, while embryonic stem cell research has yet to develop a treatment and does require an embryo to be destroyed...