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Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
researchers not pressuring or paying any third party to obtain oocytes for them, 11 , 92 , 102 , 128
State legislation, 75–76 , 106
Statistical data, 66 , 68
Statutory bans, 16
Stem Cell Bank, in the UK, 44 , 77 , 92
Stem Cell Oversight Committee, 78
Stem Cell Task Force, 25
Stem cells, 15 , 50 , 119
derivation of, 16
safe handling and storage of, 4 , 90 , 101–102 , 127
standardization of and validation of results, 4
Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine , 19
Stored cells
confidence in the value of, 12
disclosure that cells and cell lines may be kept for many years, 90 , 102 , 127
T
Targeting
in the development of drugs, 2
in genes, 117
Taxonomies, 49
Teratomas, 31–32 , 36 , 120
Testing
potential of derived cells to contribute usefully when implanted, 44
therapeutic drugs, 45
Therapeutic potentials, 50 , 76
involving cloning, 19
Thomson, James, 1 , 15
Timing of consent to donate excess blastocysts, 88
obtaining from each donor at time of donation, 88 , 101 , 127
Tissue culture, 30–33 , 120
Tissue rejection, overcoming, 34
Tracking, 72
Transfection, 33 , 120
Transgenes, 42 , 120
Transparency, 51
Transplantation uses, 34 , 42 , 44–45 , 67 , 72–73 , 105 , 120
Trophectoderm, 29–31 , 120
Type I diabetes, 33
U
U.N. General Assembly, 74 n, 76
Undifferentiated cells, 32 , 120
United Kingdom, 77
national body established in, 59
procurement practices in, 66
United States Code (USC), 72
University of Wisconsin, 15
U.S. state law on hES cell research, 74–76
USC. See United States Code
Uterus, 29–30 , 34
V
Varmus, Harold, 23
Viral infections, 33
Voluntary donations, ensuring to all donors, 84–85
W
Web-based primer, 56
Women
possible exploitation of, 48
undergoing hormonal induction to generate oocytes, 87 , 101 , 127
X
Xenograft or xenotransplant, 39 , 73 , 120
Z
Zygote, 29–30 , 120