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Ghoulish gimmick offers to turn sibling embryos into body parts.(Inside Track)(StemLifeLine)(Brief article)
A California biotech company, StemLifeLine, is peddling a service that offers to transform "spare embryos" into stem-cell lines that clients "may one day use to create personalized therapies for themselves and their families."
StemLifeLine admits on its FAQs page that "the stem cells most commonly used in therapy are adult stem cells." Also, the company will not guarantee that it can create a stem-cell line out of the 10 necessary embryos that would need to be cannibalized in the process. However, StemLifeLine claims to have successfully completed pilot studies that validate its service offering. But since no therapeutic application of embryonic stem cells has yet to be found anywhere in the world, it seems unlikely, particularly considering that the use of non-embryonic stem cells, ...
- Sci chat.(embryonic stem cells research)
- Magazine article from: Odyssey April 1, 2005 700+ words
...School in Wahiawa, HI. Do embryonic stem cells represent a human life? Embryonic stem cells, which are a bunch of cells, are...exists. My opinion is that embryonic stem cells do represent human life because they are "life in the making...
- 3 Stem cells: Research ban may keep out life-science businesses.(Focus)
- Magazine article from: Crain's Detroit Business October 9, 2006 700+ words
...ban. Critics including the Michigan Catholic Conference and Right to Life of Michigan say using embryonic stem cells destroys human life and the state should be unstinting in its defense of life. Opponents are also promoting greater use of alternative...
- STEM CELLS ARE LIFE, NOT ITS PRECURSORS.(SPECTRUM)(Letter to the Editor)
- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) June 9, 2005 700+ words
...not controversial because "stem cells hold the precursors to human life"; it is controversial because embryonic stem cells are extracted from what can arguably be a human life. Human life begins at some...
- Reproductive technologies legislation.(Canada)(researchers to extract stem...
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight January 1, 2004 700+ words
...allows researchers to extract stem cells from human embryos for research...abortion policy and its disregard for human life and human dignity. An October...to research using human embryo stem cells, which they argue destroy human life.
- Stem cells, embryos, and casualties of war. (Science and Religion).(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: Free Inquiry Bonchek, Lawrence I. June 22, 2002 700+ words
...nucleus from an adult cell). Stem cells can be harvested from the...technology, consider the use of stem cells contrary to the "sanctity of human life." There is a certain irony...regardless of the reason, no "human" life may be sacrificed. Was...
- A more ethical way to harvest stem cells? Scientists are in hot pursuit....
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor October 17, 2005 700+ words
...these cells, called embryonic stem cells, from mice using methods they...widely used method of harvesting stem cells from embryos, which destroys...techniques violate the sanctity of human life. Work on stem cells taken from adults, they say...
- Organs and stem cells: policy lessons and cautionary tales.(policy...
- Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report Kahn, Jeffrey P. March 1, 2007 700+ words
...parallels in the stem cell research debate: (1) where would organs come from (read embryos for stem cells); (2) how would our understanding of human life and its definitions be affected by the desire to perform transplants (read moral status issues...
- Stem Cells: Their Promise, Their Problems.
- News wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing Taft, Kingsley L. Webb, Sharon March 9, 2005 700+ words
...around the fact that embryonic stem cells are derived from human embryos...opposing the use of embryonic stem cells. First, if life begins at conception, one is taking a human life when one harvests embryonic stem cells from a blastocyst. Second...
