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Although the process sounds relatively easy, the procedure is invasive and has some associated risk. As in-vitro fertilization and its associated procedures have only been popularly practiced for the last ten years, no long term analysis of the effect of egg harvesting or Lupron on the body is available...
...donated by the same women. They then used tiny bursts of electricity to fuse together the donor material and egg. Nourished in dishes, 30 of the hybrid eggs developed into blastocysts--balls of hundreds of cells that represent one of the earliest stages of fetal development. When couples undergo in-vitro fertilization, a blastocyst successfully implanted in the womb has a very good chance of becoming a baby...
...research. Working with money lent by private donors—including Harvard University, the government of Singapore and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation—Melton built his own supply of stem cells. In a two year process, he procured a set of 17 cell lines from a Boston in-vitro fertilization clinic, which extracted the tissue from discarded embryos whose donors gave written consent...
...debate over stem-cell research, whether those cells come from cloning or from conventional in-vitro fertilization, is far from over, at least in the U.S. Right-to-life and religious groups, including the Roman Catholic Church, believe that human life begins at conception and thus that harvesting stem cells is tantamount to murder. With views like that on one side and high-profile advocates like Christopher Reeve and Michael J. Fox touting the benefits of therapeutic cloning on the other, the Bush Administration has tried to split the difference. In August 2001 the President declared that the U.S. government...
...head on." But many HLS employees "never even see an animal" in their work, retorts Gay. Half of the company's contracted research is in nonanimal-related chemistries. Roughly one-eighth of the work, Gay adds, is in the kind of alternatives that animal-rights groups encourage - in-vitro experimentation and computer modeling. While HLS officials say they've become immune over the years to much of the intimidation and abuse, they refer to some SHAC activists as "loonies" who are "comparable to football hooligans." Lynn Sawyer, a midwife and SHAC activist, finds such characterizations laughable. "I've never...