An embryo by any other name?
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- Embryonic stem cell development(s). // Nature Cell Biology;Sep2005, Vol. 7 Issue 9, p845
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- An inconvenient truth. // Nature;11/29/2007, Vol. 450 Issue 7170, p585
The author reflects on the issue concerning human embryonic stem-cell research in Great Britain. He discusses the claims of scientists regarding the importance of embryonic research and the stands of those who oppose such work. According to the author, those scientists that are doing embryonic...
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This paper discusses two proposals to the US President's Council on Bioethics that try to overcome the issue of killing embryos in embryonic stem (ES) cell research and argues that neither of them can hold good as a compromise solution. The author argues that (1) the groups of people for which...
- Embryonic stem cells don't work, but that's not the issue. Grace, Kevin Michael // Report / Newsmagazine (National Edition);4/1/2002, Vol. 29 Issue 7, p11
Discusses the research being done on embryonic stem cells (ESC) in Canada, and compares it to the experiments of Nazis. View of lawyer Wesley J. Smith that there is a lack of evidence that ESC research will save lives; Benefits of adult stem-cell implantation; Belief that the media supports ESC...
- Embryonic stem cells don't work, but that's not the issue. Grace, Kevin Michael // Report / Newsmagazine (BC Edition);4/1/2002, Vol. 29 Issue 7, p11
Discusses the research being done on embryonic stem cells (ESC) in Canada, and compares it to the experiments of Nazis. View of lawyer Wesley J. Smith that there is a lack of evidence that ESC research will save lives; Benefits of adult stem-cell implantation; Belief that the media supports ESC...
- ETHICS INTERRUPTED. Scheller, Christine A. // Christianity Today;Oct2005, Vol. 49 Issue 10, p66
Highlights the ethicality of embryonic stem-cell (ESC) research in the U.S. Inability of Hans S. Keirstead, an embryonic stem-cell researcher at the Reeve-Irvine Research Center in Southern California, to destroy human embryos to succeed in his ESC research; Difficulty in establishing stem-cell...
