New Embryos - New Challenges for the Ethics of Stem Cell Research

Holm, Soren 2008. New Embryos - New Challenges for the Ethics of Stem Cell Research. Cells Tissues Organs 187 (4) , pp. 257-262. 10.1159/000116763

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Abstract

Among the many ethical issues raised by human embryonic stem cell research (in the following all references to ‘stem cells’ should be read as references to human embryonic stem cells), two have gained specific prominence: (1) whether stem cell research is ethically problematic because it entails the destruction of human embryos and (2) what kind of control embryo donors should have over the stem cell lines derived from their embryos. In the present paper, I will analyse how these two issues are engaged by various attempts to derive stem cells from anomalous embryos (e.g. embryos in cleavage arrest, embryos not implanted following pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or embryos created by altered nuclear transfer) or in ways that are claimed to be non-destructive for the embryo (e.g. blastocyst or blastomere biopsy).

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Altered nuclear transfer; Embryos; Ethics; Human embryonic; stem cells; Parthenogenesis; Stem cells; Tetraploid; complementation
Publisher:	Karger Publisher
ISSN:	1422-6421
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2020 04:52
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/19025

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