Eligibility of Cryopreserved Human Embryos for Stem Cell Research in Canada The Importance of Empirical Research in Bioethics: The Case of Human Embryo Stem Cell Research

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Judy Birdsell
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Human Embryo ◽  
Human Embryos ◽  
Empirical Research In Bioethics

Research guidelines for embryoids

2021 ◽  
pp. medethics-2020-106493
Author(s):  
Monika Piotrowska
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
Human Development ◽  
International Society ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Human Embryo ◽  
Human Embryos ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
Research Regulations

Human embryo models formed from stem cells—known as embryoids—allow scientists to study the elusive first stages of human development without having to experiment on actual human embryos. But clear ethical guidelines for research involving embryoids are still lacking. Previously, a handful of researchers put forward new recommendations for embryoids, which they hope will be included in the next set of International Society for Stem Cell Research guidelines. Although these recommendations are an improvement over the default approach, they are nonetheless unworkable, because they rely on a poorly conceived notion of an embryoid’s ‘potential’ to trigger stringent research regulations.

scholarly journals Die menswaardigheid van die menslike embrio: die debat tot dusver

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Vorster
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Human Embryo ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Human Embryos ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Ethical Debate

The human dignity of the human embryo: the debate thus farThis article examines some recent arguments regarding the ethics of stem cell research as they are discussed in the various essays in the publication of Gruen et al. (2007), “Stem cell research: the ethical issues”. Regarding the use of human embryos in stem cell research, these essays discuss among other things the potential of the human embryo, the moral status (human dignity) of the human embryo, the creation of chimeras, the sale of ocytes and other ethical issues in modern bioethics. Eventually the article draws attention to the main ethical problems at stake to be dealt with by Christian ethics using a deontological ethical theory. Christian ethics should focus on these problems in the on-going ethical debate regarding stem cell research.

How is it Right to Treat the Human Embryo? The Embryo and Stem Cell Research

2003 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194
Author(s):  
William J. Uren
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Stem Cell Research ◽  
Human Embryo ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Health Ethics

This submission to the Australian Health Ethics Committee considers issues of “respect” and “potential” and argues that the embryo is to be respected because it is nascent and developing human life. Destructive experimentation, even for the purposes of stem cell research, should therefore not be permitted on embryos originally intended for implantation but now surplus to IVF needs. The goals for which they are being destroyed in experimentation are distant and uncertain, and professional practice in IVF now requires that no more than one or at most two embryos should be generated.

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