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...debate over stem-cell research, whether those cells come from cloning or from conventional in-vitro fertilization, is far from over, at least in the U.S. Right-to-life and religious groups, including the Roman Catholic Church, believe that human life begins at conception and thus that harvesting stem cells is tantamount to murder. With views like that on one side and high-profile advocates like Christopher Reeve and Michael J. Fox touting the benefits of therapeutic cloning on the other, the Bush Administration has tried to split the difference. In August 2001 the President declared that the U.S. government...
...Biology students should be prepared to carry out in silico (computer) experiments to compliment in vitro and in vivo experiments,” NAS reports...
...head on." But many HLS employees "never even see an animal" in their work, retorts Gay. Half of the company's contracted research is in nonanimal-related chemistries. Roughly one-eighth of the work, Gay adds, is in the kind of alternatives that animal-rights groups encourage - in-vitro experimentation and computer modeling. While HLS officials say they've become immune over the years to much of the intimidation and abuse, they refer to some SHAC activists as "loonies" who are "comparable to football hooligans." Lynn Sawyer, a midwife and SHAC activist, finds such characterizations laughable. "I've never...
...trying to develop an in vitro way to study the motor mechanism of the flagella,” Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Howard C. Berg said...
There may be nothing more heartbreaking than trying to have a baby and failing--except perhaps finally succeeding and then discovering that there's something wrong with your child. That's why so many infertile couples were upset last year by a study showing that babies born through in-vitro fertilization had an 8.6% chance of having major birth defects--twice the expected risk...