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Nobel laureates' letter to President Bush.
Kenneth J. Arrow,Julius Axelrod,Baruj Benacerraf,Berg P,Bishop Jm,Nicolaas Bloembergen,Herbert C. Brown,Jose B. Cibelli,Stanley N. Cohen,Leon N. Cooper,E. J. Corey,Cronin Jw,Curl R,Renato Dulbecco,Edmond H. Fischer,V. L. Fitch,Fogel R,Friedman Ji,Robert F. Furchgott,Murray Gell-Mann,Walter Gilbert,Gilman A,Glaser D,Sheldon L. Glashow,Green Rm,Greengard P,Roger Guillemin,Leonard Hayflick,Herbert A. Hauptman,Heckman Jj,Heeger A,Dudley R. Herschbach,David H. Hubel,Hulse R,Kandel E,Jerome Karle,Lawrence R. Klein,Walter Kohn,Arthur Kornberg,Krebs Eg,Robert Lanza,Laughlin R,Leon M. Lederman,David M. Lee,Lewis E,W. N. Lipscomb,Rudolph A. Marcus,McFadden D,Merrifield Rb,Merton R,Franco Modigliani,Mario J. Molina,Ferid Murad,Marshall W. Nirenberg,Douglass C. North,George A. Olah,Osheroff D,G E Palade,Perl M,Norman F. Ramsey,Burton Richter,Richard J. Roberts,Paul A. Samuelson,Melvin Schwartz,Phillip A. Sharp,Richard E. Smalley,Hamilton O. Smith,Robert M. Solow,Stormer H,Henry Taube,Taylor R,Thomas Ed,Tobin J,Susumu Tonegawa,Townes C,James D. Watson,Steven Weinberg,Thomas H. Weller,West,Wieschaus Ef,Torsten N. Wiesel,Robert W. Wilson +81 more
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It is the undersigned's belief that the current National Institutes of Health guidelines, which enable scientists to conduct stem cell research within the rigorous constraints of federal oversight and standards, should remain in effect.Abstract:
We the undersigned urge you to support Federal funding for research using human pluripotent stem cells. We join with other research institutions and patient groups in our belief that the current National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines, which enable scientists to conduct stem cell research within the rigorous constraints of federal oversight and standards, should be permitted to remain in effect. The discovery of human pluripotent stem cells is a significant milestone in medical research. Federal support for the enormous creativity of the US biomedical community is essential to translate this discovery into novel therapies for a range of serious and currently intractable diseases.read more
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Human embryo research and the language of moral uncertainty.
TL;DR: This paper surveyed the use of language reporting on human embryo research in news articles spanning a two-year period and found that the descriptors that devalued moral status outnumber those that affirmed any degree of moral status above that of inanimate cellular matter; for example, living, human life, or human being.
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A brief history of human diploid cell strains.
TL;DR: The Pontifical Academy for Life published a response about the moral legitimacy of immunizing children with vaccines manufactured using cell strains derived from aborted human fetuses, and the history of the development of these cell strains is reviewed.
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The Prisoner Dis-Analogy as a Defense of Stem Cell Research on Spare Embryos
TL;DR: The prisoner analogy does not hold for the case of the embryo as discussed by the authors, and the repudiation of the analogy implies that it is morally permissible to use spare IVF embryos for the purposes of stem cell research.