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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959124503321

Titolo

The National Academies' guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research / / Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee ; Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine ; National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007

ISBN

9786610844210

9780309185783

0309185785

9781280844218

1280844213

9780309105606

0309105609

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (46 p.)

Disciplina

174.2/8

Soggetti

Cloning - Research

Embryonic stem cells - Research

Human embryo - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"2007 amendments."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter; Acknowledgments; Contents; 2007 Amendments to the National Academies' Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research; Appendix A National Academies' Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Amended as of February 20071; Appendix B Committee Biographical Sketches

Sommario/riassunto

In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of comprehensive federal funding, was lacking national standards for research. In order to keep the Guidelines up to date, given the rapid pace of scientific developments in the field of stem cell research, the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee was established in 2006 with



support from The Ellison Medical Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. This letter report is the committee's first set of amendments to the Guidelines and clarifies earlier recommendations and conclusions, including the criteria for determining which stem cell lines it is acceptable to use. Future deliberations of the committee will address items for which additional information gathering and more extensive debate and discussion will be necessary.