Institutes of Health Human Embryo Research Panel and collaborated in the writing of the Panel's Report providing guidelines for all future federally funded research on the human embryo. From February 1996 through June of 1997, he served as a

mechanisms of early embryo development, including the production of transgenic and cloned animals, in species including the pig, cow, goat and rodents. Current research is directed at understanding 1) cell cycle synchronicity of

germline ; Use of human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes; Processes for modifying animal germline, which cause suffering without substantial medical benefit Plant & animal varieties and essential biological processes

of Health Human Embryo Research Panel. In 1996-97, he served, half time, as the founding director of the Office of Genome Ethics at NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute. Dr. Green has been president of the Society of

for stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst (a very early embryo). Embryonic germ cells are collected from fetal tissue at a somewhat later stage of development (from a region called

from these various sources. Embryonic stem cells (ES cells ) derived from early embryos and embryonic germ cells (EG cells) have particular promise for a wide range of therapeutic applications because they are capable of giving rise to virtually

for the Certification of Embryo Laboratories should be generally endorsed and its adoption by the states strongly encouraged. The program is a useful first step toward achieving greater quality control in private fertility clinics that

eggs cannot be frozen but embryos can, persons using IVF usually aim to produce a group of stored, frozen embryos to support as many attempts at pregnancy as necessary to achieve their goals. Often, they end up with more embryos than they need

are the moral limits of embryo and embryonic stem cell research? Ron Cole-Turner Pittsburgh Theological Seminary: Play Robert

of research on human embryonic stem cells, approval even in the face of ethical squeamishness regarding embryo research. If this Australian statement is a barometer, we need to ask: what is the cultural weather forecast? What might be