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Over the next few months, the University’s ethics review board will consider what should be one of the easiest decisions they will make: Two teams of researchers affiliated with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have requested permission to clone human cells to conduct stem cell research. This is a request that the University, and indeed humanity, can not afford to see denied...
...Stem cells from IVF, however, have a genetic make-up which is different from the genetic make-up of the patient in need of cell replacement. This creates the problem of immune rejection, whereby the patient’s immune defense attacks the transplanted “foreign” tissue...
...recent years embryonic stem cells have been derived from early embryos left over following in-vitro-fertilization (IVF) procedures. President Bush has restricted federal funding to research on cell lines which were derived prior to August 2001; in the President’s words, “where the life and death decision has already been made.” This decision turns a blind eye to the practical reality of IVF procedures, in which left over embryos are discarded every day as part of standard protocols. Thus, if the President is opposed to allowing ‘life...
...own” tissue by a method known as nuclear transfer. The idea is to transfer the nucleus of one of the patient’s body cells to an egg cell from which the nucleus was removed, resulting in a so-called nuclear transfer embryo. Stem cells obtained from such an embryo are genetically identical to that of the patient. Regenerative tissue derived from these stem cells escapes immune rejection...
American patients should not have to cross the globe for any hope of treatment and risk being exposed to counterfeit medicine. American researchers should not have to leave U.S. labs to conduct promising stem cell research abroad. By taking the scientific and moral initiative in stem cell research, U.S. society can act to prevent both. Regulated and clinically responsible research in U.S. labs will fill the research vacuum from which phony clinics benefit at present. The American people, and indeed the world, call on the U.S. government for a committed and realistic approach to one of the promising medical innovations...