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A guide to the benefits, responsibilities and opportunities of embryonic stem cell research

9 Jun 2004

They do not necessarily reflect the views of the BNAC membership as a whole, nor of the Atlantic Council of the United States, the British-North American Research Association and its Council and Members, or the C. D. Howe Institute’s Board of Directors. [...] While recognizing and acknowledging the complex ethical issues involved, we recommend that: 1. The national scientific research policies of the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada should reflect the intent to lead the world in the evolving knowledge base, likely medical advances and economic benefits of embryonic stem cell research. [...] However, if the process by which stem cells grow and divide into specialized cells can be understood and replicated, there is the possibility of replacing specialized cells in diseased or damaged tissue and, even, of re-growing parts of the human body with genetically identical material to that of the recipient, thereby avoiding the problem of tissue rejection. [...] Some of the potential tissues that could be repaired by these techniques are listed in Table 1. 2 British-North American Committee The obvious source for stem cells for research is the embryo in the Table 1 few days following conception, because at that stage most of the Potential Use of Stem Cells to Treat Disease/Damage cells in the embryo are unspecialized. [...] A key difference between these embryonic stem cells and those derived from IVF is that the genetic material in this technique is envisaged to be identical to the genetic material of the nucleus donor, whereas in IVF the genetic material of the blastocyst is that which results from the union of the sperm and the egg, or a 50-50 split.
health politics science and technology research biology genetics human cloning reproduction life sciences medical research medicine zoology stem cell cloning developmental biology biological processes stem cells somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos embryonic stem cells health treatment biomedical science organisms stem cell research ivf therapeutic cloning somatic cell scnt
ISBN
0902594605
Pages
55
Published in
Canada

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