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...forever be remembered as the man who taught us the word cremaster, which is the muscle that raises or lowers the testicles in response to warmth, cold or whatever other stimuli. His great preoccupation is the stage of fetal development during the first eight weeks of gestation, when the embryo has not yet been differentiated as male or female. As obsessions go, this might not be one you would expect from a former high school football player from Boise, Idaho. But to him this stage represents a time of pure potential. The descent of the testicles in the male fetus...
...organ transplants for the 70,000 people on waiting lists in this country alone. And that raises the question: If an Australian biotech company creates a creature that is part human, part pig, what law would apply to it? Should a company be allowed to patent a cloned human embryo, then market its cells to help fight disease? What if the embryo is made of human DNA planted...
...been drafting young members ever since. The pro-life cause has also received a boost from technology. The morning-after pill and new forms of contraception like Depo-Provera have made surgical abortion that much rarer, and high-resolution sonogram images have made an embryo's first moments that much more real...
...leprosy, but it does change the body's immunological and inflammatory response to those bacteria - which is why researchers are investigating its potential uses in autoimmune disorders like HIV, Behçet's disease and Crohn's disease. This time around researchers are taking stringent precautions against any possible embryo-damaging side effects. They insist that women of childbearing age use two forms of contraception and undergo pregnancy tests before starting thalidomide treatment, and that men also use contraception in case sperm might be affected. They advise too that the precautions continue for a month after the last treatment. Even...
...biotech companies to argue for compromise in a world where the worst-case scenario is getting all the attention. The Raelians are to the labs of America what Enron was to the boardrooms, a rebuke to the premise that science can be self-policing. "If you allow embryo cloning in research labs because of its supposed great potential," argues Representative Dave Weldon, Republican from Florida who did research in molecular genetics in graduate school, "you're going to have all these labs with all these embryos, and it will be that much easier for people like the Raelians...