Scientists Want to Grow Babies in the Womb for 40 Days and Kill Them for Research
Scientists Want to Grow Babies in the Womb for 40 Days and Kill Them for Research – LifeNews.com
A recent news story describing how scientists in China generated the first human-monkey chimeric embryos (unborn monkeys with human body parts)-a deliberate and unnatural crossing of species-sent shock waves through the world. But this unethical experimentation on human embryos is not exclusive to China. Scientists have now successfully grown baby mice in the lab, outside […]
Q&A with the Scholars: Science, Ethics, and Fetal Tissue – Lozier Institute
Tara Sander Lee, Ph.D., is a Molecular and Cell Biologist with over 15 years of experience in academic research and healthcare. In this interview, she discusses genetic testing for diagnosis and treatment of children and the ethical and scientific issues surrounding the use of fetal tissue procured from abortion for research.
‘No valid rationale’: Scientists create monkey-human hybrid embryos
Scientists have created embryos that are a combination of human and monkey cells for the first time. They published the results of their research in the journal on Thursday, April 15 th . A motivation behind the pursuit of the project was its “promis[e]” as a “strategy for various regenerative medicine applications, including the generation of organs and tissues for transplantation.”
