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Follow The Leader?: Maryland's Response To The New Federal Stem Cell Guidelines, Michael Ulrich
Follow The Leader?: Maryland's Response To The New Federal Stem Cell Guidelines, Michael Ulrich
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Billions of dollars have been spent in search of cures for diseases such as cancer, muscular dystrophy, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. Medical research has consistently pushed the envelope to find new ways to tackle old problems, yet, the field of embryonic stem cell research, a field that many believe could be the key to providing new and effective treatments, remains relatively underfunded due to concerns over ethical considerations. This is largely because the biggest financial backer of scientific research is the federal government, and its desire to finance embryonic stem cell research has waxed and waned over the …
Nih Guidelines On Human Stem Cell Research In Context: Clarity Or Confusion?, Michael Ulrich
Nih Guidelines On Human Stem Cell Research In Context: Clarity Or Confusion?, Michael Ulrich
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Restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research under President Bush stimulated a number of states and the private sector to fund stem cell research, resulting in a patchwork of varying guidelines throughout the country. The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) guidelines were expected to change all of this.With President Obama following through on his assurance to remove restrictions, stem cell researchers assumed they would find clarity when the new NIH Guidelines on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research were promulgated to outline an ethical framework to determine which research was eligible for federal funding. As part of …
Arbitrage, Bioethics, And Cloning: The Abcs Ofgestating A United National Cloning Convention, George J. Annas
Arbitrage, Bioethics, And Cloning: The Abcs Ofgestating A United National Cloning Convention, George J. Annas
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America's inability to craft a regulatory ethics of abortion has led to a
wild west of unregulated research with human embryos and pregnant
women by our private infertility industry. Because of an "all or nothing"
research mentality, it is becoming increasingly impossible to suggest
outlandish and reckless reproductive research possibilities without seeing
them actually pursued. And if even the wild west seems a bit inhospitable
to particular research goals, such as cloning to produce the genetic duplicate
of an existing person, media darlings like Severino Antinori and Zavos
Panos, and even members of the Raelian cult, clone press conferences
(since …