Published on October 31, 2011 by Technology Slice
No Patent for Stem Cells – A process which involves removal of a stem cell from a human embryo at the blastocyst stage, entailing the destruction of that embryo, cannot be patented. The use of human embryos for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and are useful to it is [...]
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Published on June 3, 2009 by Technology Slice
Stem cell research and different treatments have been controversial since day one. This comes as no surprise considering it involves the break-down of a human embryo as a part of the process. Embryos are potentially living human beings making their destruction an ethical dilemma. There is one simple question, if answered, that would end all [...]
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