stem cell research
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstem,cellandresearch
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stem
noun[C]
uk/stem/us/stem/
a central part of something from which other parts can develop or grow, or which forms ...
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cell
noun[C]
uk/sel/us/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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research
noun[U]
uk/rɪˈsɜːtʃ/us/ˈriː.sɝːtʃ/
a detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a ...
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With this issue there are also, however, political reasons to have a law on stemcellresearch.
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As the above analysis has shown, the abundant use of therapeutic arguments to justify human embryonic stemcellresearchlacks empirical foundation.
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Although the group condemned human reproductive cloning, they found acceptable the cloning of human embryos for stemcellresearch.
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But, like stemcellresearch, nontherapeutic brain research is justified on utilitarian grounds that future patients will eventually benefit from newly discovered therapies.
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We are on the brink of new successes and advances using genetic technolog y, gene therapies, transplantation, embryonic stemcellresearch, even human cloning.
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It does, however, also suffer from another problem caused by the embryonic state of present stemcellresearch.
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People look toward embryonic stemcellresearchas possibly giving new hope to patients whose failing organs can be restored or replaced.
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With reference to the debate on stemcellresearch, the argument from symbolic value to moral value encompasses a wide spectrum of views.
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But it is not just stemcellresearch, of course.
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The public presentation of the benefits of stemcellresearchhas often been characterized by the promise of huge and immediate benefits.
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A right to reproductive liberty cannot, for instance, in itself support a permission to use embryos for nonreproductionrelated purposes, such as stemcellresearch!
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The ethical aspects of human stemcellresearchraise a wide variety of controversial and important issues.
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The burning parallel today is the challenge of stemcellresearch, cloning, and chromosome-gene manipulation.
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Such topics as embryonic stemcellresearch, therapeutic cloning, germ line gene therapy, genetic enhancement, and xenotransplantation all raise ethical issues worth careful exploration.
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Benefiting from evil: an incipient moral problem in human stemcellresearchand therapy.
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