• At the same time, the statement calls for a five-year moratorium on the use of cloning to create human embryos for research purposes. (boloji.com)
  • Pro-cloning forces have been working hard to convince state governments to pass constitutional amendments enshrining a "right" to clone and to destroy embryos for research. (flfamily.org)
  • It's almost like proponents of killing human embryos for research in Michigan have been misleading the public for so long (with the help of papers like the Free Press) they don't know how to be honest with them even after their proposal passed. (blogspot.com)
  • In therapeutic cloning on the other hand, genetic material from a body cell is inserted into an egg cell, replacing the nucleus. (boloji.com)
  • However, the Senate bill does allow for therapeutic cloning, known as 'nuclear transplantation', for research on therapies that could cure several serious and life-threatening diseases. (boloji.com)
  • The Society for Women's Health Research, a non-profit group, agrees that therapeutic cloning should be allowed. (boloji.com)
  • The potential of therapeutic cloning for treating, and perhaps curing, a variety of debilitating diseases demands that the scientific community be allowed to continue this promising work. (boloji.com)
  • The heated debate in our society over reproductive cloning, as well as therapeutic cloning to obtain embryonic stem cells, has been fueled by misconceptions and hyperbole on both sides. (flfamily.org)
  • Otherwise, such a treaty would not recognize the inherent human nature of the early human embryo or fetus until after birth , and thus cloning them and using them for research - both "therapeutic" and "reproductive" -- would not be banned, and women undergoing "infertility treatments" could surely be put in danger. (lifeissues.net)
  • In the study , researchers labeled ofatumumab, a recently developed anti-CD20 fully human antibody, with 177 Lu, a widely used therapeutic radioisotope that can kill cancer cells. (worldhealth.net)
  • They then determined the in vitro characteristics of [ 177 Lu]Lu-ofatumumab, estimated human dosimetry, and evaluated its therapeutic effectiveness for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a mouse model. (worldhealth.net)
  • The excellent therapeutic results in this animal model of human B cell lymphoma suggest that this curative treatment should be tested in humans with non-Hodgkin lymphoma," noted Wahl. (worldhealth.net)
  • There is no way that human cloning could be developed without unethical mass experimentation on women and children,' they said. (boloji.com)
  • In 1995, the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel advised the administration of President Bill Clinton to permit federal funding for research on embryos left over from in vitro fertility treatments and also recommended federal funding of research on embryos specifically created for experimentation. (wikipedia.org)
  • A few years ago, in an article in the The Times of London newspaper, the author, Michael Gove, made the following statement: "Embryonic stem-cell experimentation involves not just the destruction of human life but the creation of life with the specific intent to destroy it. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • The majority of Jewish authorities agree that such embryos, created in hope, may be used for experimentation in order to provide anticipated cures, rather than allowing them to be dispensed with or to deteriorate. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • Second, Michael Gove holds that embryonic experimentation represents the destruction of human life. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • It has not yet been " ensouled " - and so is not yet a " person " - i.e., a human subject to be protected from abuse in experimentation. (lifeissues.net)
  • Back in July, I took note of a paper published by a real stem cell scientist, Paul Knoepfler, who has described many of these clinics accurately as " unapproved, for-profit human experimentation . (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • If we add explicit attention to moral problems raised by human experimentation, the list could still today serve well as a brief itemization of the central concerns of bioethics. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • As head of Japan's infamous Unit 731 (a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II), Dr. Shiro Ishii (head of medicine) carried out violent human experimentation of tens of thousands during the Second Sino-Japenses War and World War II.Ishii was responsible for testing vivisection techniques without any anesthesia on human prisoners. (pakalertpress.com)
  • Conversely, you and I are on an unstoppable trajectory of growing and decaying that is a hallmark of later fetal and born human life. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • Research advocates attack President Bush for "banning stem cell research," while pro-life advocates lament a Republican administration and Congress that have banned nothing-not embryo destruction, not human cloning, not fetal farming, not genetic engineering. (eppc.org)
  • But we can only wonder about the ethical propriety of producing the first human child with this technique, knowing that the hoped-for newborn would be a reproductive experiment, one that may end initially in numerous fetal failures. (eppc.org)
  • It unshackles Michigan's talented researchers and physicians, and permits them to finally join the race for cures by utilizing the most promising medical advancement of the 21st Century: embryonic stem cell research. (blogspot.com)
  • except for the fact that the federal government's National Institutes of Health has spent about $40 million a year on human embryonic stem cell research for the last number of years. (blogspot.com)
  • Obama will more than likely support allowing the NIH to fund human embryonic stem cell research on cell lines created after 2001 but I doubt they'll be spending hundreds of millions on that small sliver of the pluripotent stem cell research pie. (blogspot.com)
  • If embryonic stem-cell research offers real possibilities for future cures then, from a Jewish point of view, it may be pursued with caution, humility, and strict supervision. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • Perhaps Ramsey would give other extraordinarily powerful arguments as to why human cloning is unethical, but he obviously would not be able to base it on his unscientific "pre-embryo" position. (lifeissues.net)
  • We can illustrate this first by noting how advancing genetic knowledge encourages us to think of human beings as no more than collections of parts. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • The Society is concerned that a ban on nuclear transplantation might thwart research directed at finding cures and treatments for diseases and disabilities which solely, predominantly or differently affect women,' says their president, Phyllis Greenberger. (boloji.com)
  • Because the early stem cells have the ability to become any one of the hundreds of different kinds of human cells, scientists are working on research using these cells with the aim of creating therapies to treat a variety of diseases. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • Harvard's ability is critical in this case, Summers said, given the promise of stem cells to cure organ or tissue failure from diseases that afflict 150 million nationally. (harvard.edu)
  • It is that potential that has researchers thinking the cells may hold the key to treating or curing diseases related to organ or issue failure, such as diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, heart disease, spinal cord injury, and muscular dystrophy. (harvard.edu)
  • Right here in the good ol' USA, there are clinics claiming that stem cells can cure arthritis, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, and host of other chronic diseases and conditions. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • Further, cloning advocates are seeking to appropriate the language of reproductive rights and freedom of choice to support their case. (boloji.com)
  • In response to the panel's recommendations, the Clinton administration, citing moral and ethical concerns, declined to fund research on embryos created solely for research purposes, but did agree to fund research on left-over embryos created by in vitro fertility treatments. (wikipedia.org)
  • Perhaps this is worth celebrating for young women who cannot produce eggs on their own, as a first step toward novel fertility treatments. (eppc.org)
  • American feminists and women's health activists are debating on the difficult issue of human cloning and stem cell research. (boloji.com)
  • Paul Wagle, M.A., discusses his experience with a life-saving adult stem cell treatment, and the importance of promoting ethical approaches to medical research. (flfamily.org)
  • Except that Michigan researchers have already been competing for federal human embryonic stem cell funding. (blogspot.com)
  • Stem cell treatments are a type of cell therapy that introduce new cells into adult bodies for possible treatment of cancer, diabetes, neurological disorders and other medical conditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers said Harvard is one of the few institutions that have the ability to step into the gap left by the federal government's decision to ban federal funding of research on human embryonic stem cell lines created after Aug. 9, 2001. (harvard.edu)
  • second type of cell, the human embryonic stem cell. (harvard.edu)
  • The agency funds stem cell research at institutions and companies throughout California (as well as institutions and companies outside of the state that conduct a portion of their research in California) with the goal of accelerating treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. (ca.gov)
  • In 2020, California voters approved to continue funding California's Stem Cell Agency through the passage of Proposition 14: The California Stem Cell Research, Treatments, and Cures Initiative of 2020 . (ca.gov)
  • The ultimate goal of our programs is to fast-track stem cell treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. (ca.gov)
  • I learned about the unrelentingly positive spin the media tend to place on stem cell treatments when I first started blogging about Gordie Howe's stroke and Dr. Maynard Howe (CEO) and Dave McGuigan (VP) of Stemedica Cell Technologies reached out to the Howe family to see if it could help him with its products. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • He told me that stem cell research carried the promise of a cure -- but that the Bush administration was blocking that research from happening. (ontheissues.org)
  • But if we are to make wise policy the stem cell/cloning arena, we need to step back, sort out the various scientific alternatives and moral issues, and search for a way forward that all citizens can embrace. (eppc.org)
  • To this end, we offer a detailed analysis of the stem cell/cloning question-where is the science, what are the political alternatives, and what moral obligations should guide us? (eppc.org)
  • The third bill would encourage research that would isolate pluripotent, i.e., embryonic-like, stem cells without the destruction of human embryos. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because of Proposal 2, Michigan's great institutions can now compete for those funds, which will accelerate the pursuit for cures and treatments to afflictions such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, juvenile diabetes, sickle cell anemia and spinal cord injuries. (blogspot.com)
  • Over the past few years, the debate over stem cells and cloning has grown both more complex and more profound. (eppc.org)
  • Five years later, the first successful human in vitro fertilization resulted in the birth of Louise Brown in England. (wikipedia.org)
  • … "human clone" means an embryo that, as a result of the manipulation of human reproductive material or an in vitro embryo, contains a diploid set of chromosomes obtained from a single - living or deceased - human being, fetus, or embryo. (hinxtongroup.org)
  • It showed favorable in vitro characteristics and dosimetry estimates that support the feasibility of human translation. (worldhealth.net)
  • In our pursuit of better information, treatment, and cures for women and their families, we must ensure that the newest and most promising techniques are available to those same researchers. (boloji.com)
  • The human embryo did not begin until after 14-days, thus the above quote from Saunders would not apply. (lifeissues.net)
  • a) It would seem that Saunders uses the "potential" argument here quite appropriately, but it is critical that the term be understood properly in order to deflect any misunderstandings or misinterpretations - especially if the term were to be used in any U. N. treaty on human cloning. (lifeissues.net)
  • Again, Saunders is referring to SCNT as "THE" cloning procedure, when there are many other ways to clone a human being as well, and he is scientifically mis-defining the product of SCNT (i.e., the cloned human embryo). (lifeissues.net)
  • Human cloning involves creating embryos with the intent of implanting them in women to produce children. (boloji.com)
  • At this point, the Congress intervened and passed the Dickey-Wicker Amendment in 1995 (the final bill, which included the Dickey Amendment, was signed into law by Bill Clinton) which prohibited any federal funding for the Department of Health and Human Services be used for research that resulted in the destruction of an embryo regardless of the source of that embryo. (wikipedia.org)
  • The bill also applies Federal ethical regulations on human subject research and outlaws the transfer of cloned embryos to a woman's uterus or to any artificial womb. (boloji.com)
  • These stem cells can differentiate into all other cells in the human body and are the subject of much scientific research. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, since they must be derived from early human embryos their production and use in research has been a hotly debated topic. (wikipedia.org)
  • These developments prompted the federal government to create regulations barring the use of federal funds for research that experimented on human embryos. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1998, privately funded research led to the breakthrough discovery of human Embryonic stem cells (hESC). (wikipedia.org)
  • The vast majority of our funds go to advance research and the development of new treatments. (ca.gov)
  • I knew and had great respect for the famous Protestant theologian and bioethicist Paul Ramsey, and used much of his work concerning the use of human subjects in research in my own. (lifeissues.net)
  • Rather, its task was to propose guidelines for preimplantation human embryo research that would be acceptable public policy based on reasoning that takes account of generally held public views regarding the beginning and development of human life. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Such amendments promise medical cures, limitless profits, and ethical benchmarks. (flfamily.org)
  • Last year, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives in the US Congress passed a bill banning all human cloning, a measure President Bush supports. (boloji.com)
  • In June 2002, numerous international organizations joined the Collective in issuing a statement on human cloning in which they called on Congress to pass a strong, effective ban on using human cloning to create a human being. (boloji.com)
  • We are human beings, invited to reflect upon what that humanity means and requires in the field of bioethics. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Acknowledging from the outset that much more might be said about any of them, I will unpack briefly four aspects of a truly human bioethics. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • T he beginning of wisdom in bioethics may lie in the effort to think about what human beings are and why it matters morally. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Pluripotent stem cells can also be derived from Somatic cell nuclear transfer which is a laboratory technique where a clone embryo is created from a donor nucleus. (wikipedia.org)
  • Citizens disagree about whether we should destroy human embryos for their stem cells-and if so, which embryos, with whose money, under what regulatory guidelines. (eppc.org)
  • Ramsey's statement could thus not apply to the issue of human cloning to begin with. (lifeissues.net)
  • b) But there is a more fundamental reason why Ramsey's statement might not apply to the issue of human cloning. (lifeissues.net)
  • They were isolated in mice in 1981, and in humans in 1998. (wikipedia.org)
  • A single dose of the radioimmunotherapy, [ 177 Lu]Lu-ofatumumab, was found to quickly eliminate tumor cells and extend the life of mice injected with cancerous cells for more than 221 days (the trial endpoint), compared to fewer than 60 days for other treatments and just 19 days in untreated control mice. (worldhealth.net)
  • Mice injected with human B cell lymphoma were either untreated, treated with unlabeled ofatumumab, treated with 8.51 MBq of [ 177 Lu]Lu-IgG, or treated with 0.74 MBq or 8.51 MBq of [ 177 Lu]Lu-ofatumumab. (worldhealth.net)
  • The best results occurred with 8.51 MBq of [ 177 Lu]Lu-ofatumumab, for which the median survival was more than 221 days, essentially curing the mice. (worldhealth.net)
  • Dr. Condic discusses the beginning of human life and the moral status of the human being. (flfamily.org)
  • Taken together, everyone seems angry or depressed-including the sick patients who wait for cures that do not come, the social conservatives who believe we live in a "culture of death," and the techno-utopians who believe man's final conquest of nature is imminent if only the religious barbarians can be driven from power. (eppc.org)
  • If testing is successful in humans, this would represent an excellent new treatment option for patients with this disease. (worldhealth.net)
  • Long before the controversy emerged over human embryonic stem cells, scientists and doctors began using first-generation stem cells from adult bone marrow. (eppc.org)
  • In July 2005, for example, scientists announced that they had engineered adult mouse stem cells into usable mouse eggs, a technique that might one day allow for the creation of human eggs from ordinary human cells. (eppc.org)
  • … "embryo" means a human organism during the first 56 days of its development following fertilization or creation, excluding any time during which its development has been suspended, and includes any cell derived from such an organism that is used for the purpose of creating a human being. (hinxtongroup.org)
  • a) Note, again, the reference to only sexual human reproduction - "the moment of conception" - i.e., fertilization. (lifeissues.net)
  • Thus, while Ramsey agreed that there is a human being present immediately at fertilization, he did not agree that it was also a human embryo or a human person - the classic "pre-embryo" argument. (lifeissues.net)
  • This article is not intended to provide a medical diagnosis, recommendation, treatment, or endorsement. (worldhealth.net)
  • While supporting a ban on the cloning of a human being, the Society believes that the ban should not deter important advancements in scientific technology. (boloji.com)
  • This lack of potential for development puts embryonic human life in a separate category. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • 6. " ... any living human embryo has the inherent 'potential' to develop into a healthy baby . (lifeissues.net)
  • Thus if by "potential" one means "potency" - i.e., that the early human embryo already exists with a human nature that is already there, and has its own inherent power or capacity (provided by that human nature) to simply grow bigger and bigger through all the usual developmental stages through birth, then such a statement stands as accurate - both scientifically and philosophically. (lifeissues.net)
  • On the other hand, if by "potential" one means that the human embryo is not a human being or human person yet , but might be later once it has been born (i.e., a "baby"), then that statement is both scientifically and philosophically incorrect. (lifeissues.net)
  • If the term "potential" were to be incorporated into a U. N. treaty on human cloning, it would be necessary to clarify its use as referring to an already existing human being/person. (lifeissues.net)
  • That is, it would be acknowledging that the human embryo and the human " baby " are the same human being and human person throughout all of his/her development. (lifeissues.net)
  • What happens when the latest and greatest in medical science comes at the expense of another human life? (flfamily.org)
  • From several different angles, medical advance has tempted us to lose sight of any sense in which the embodied human being is an integral, organic whole. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • In humans there are many types of stem cells, each with varying levels of potency. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cloning also might be done with stem cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Until recently, the principal source of human embryonic stem cells has been donated embryos from fertility clinics. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the normal course of gestation, these cells will divide and split off from one another to become every cell in the human body, forming the various organs and tissues. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • Stem cells cure everything. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • Of course, stem cells aren't mystical and magical, although they are very promising as a treatment for some degenerative conditions. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • In fact, we don't even know for sure that they cure anything because for the vast majority of conditions for which stem cells are used in these clinics, they are still at best experimental and at worst completely unproven. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • That is to say, we risk turning developed cells into developing embryos, and thus risk engaging in the very activities of embryo destruction and human cloning that we seek to avoid. (eppc.org)
  • Far more controversial-and for good reason-are stem cells derived from destroyed human embryos. (eppc.org)
  • How would you feel knowing that a human life was created only to be destroyed for your benefit? (flfamily.org)
  • To be sure, viewed through the lens of Jewish law, even the embryo outside the womb is human life. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • Gove, however, gives the impression that embryonic human life has equivalent standing to born human life. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • If implantation of the embryo is not contemplated, embryonic human life is static. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • All later human life is dynamic. (jewishvaluesonline.org)
  • The treatment they received was life-altering and scarring.In the period he was paid for (1957 - 1964) Cameron administered electroconvulsive therapy at 30-40 times the normal power. (pakalertpress.com)
  • The New Atlantis is building a culture in which science and technology work for, not on, human beings. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • rather, they involve some of the most important aspects of our humanity and raise some of the deepest questions about what it means to be human. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • But we need to proceed carefully, recognizing that we are gaining new powers over human origins even when we do not use human embryos, and recognizing the danger of blurring the line between cellular parts and embryonic wholes. (eppc.org)
  • We need to separate the facts from the popular fictions about human cloning. (flfamily.org)