Fetal Research and Applications A Conference Summary (1994) / Chapter Skim
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The effects of federal restnctions, in addition to restricting the amount of research done, include the lack of a national, consensus-denved research agenda, absence of organized peer review of proposed research protocols, and advance of the clinical practice of medically assisted conception without the benefit of a robust scientific knowledge base. In 1988 and 1989, about the time a three-year federal moratorium banning research on a fetus that involved more than minimal risk was scheduled to expire, reports were issued by the U.S.
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The initial aim was to help inform private funders, who often lack the formalized peer review systems used by government funding agencies, about new and promising areas of research in the field and, thus, to serve as an outside assessment of research priorities. The committee, formed in 1992, was comprised of senior scientists, broadly knowledgeable in the field, but not themselves directly involved in human fetal studies.
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Dramatic evidence of these concurrent forces blazed recently across the nation's front pages with the news that human embryos could now be cloned.3 The committee hopes that the background given and the research summarized here will provide insights for future progress and contribute to a fuller understanding of the social and ethical issues involved. 3 Gina Kolata, ``Cloning Human Embryos," New York Times, October 26, 1993.
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