Comes now the International Society for Stem Cell Research with its “Guidelines for the Conduct of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.” Par for the course, it is almost anything goes that can be done today—including creating new embryos through IVF fertilization for use in ESCR, cloning research, and permission to buy human eggs. But it is all to be done ethically, of course.
I hope to have more on this in coming days.
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