A scientist's view of the ethics of human embryonic stem cell research.

Abstract:

:Scientists are rarely immoral and seldom even amoral. The ethical principles that underlie much of their own work are shared with scientists in other countries to a much greater degree than the cultural and religious differences among those countries would lead one to expect. Like me, few will have had any formal training in bioethics; so how might life scientists approach the varied ethical issues that arise in human embryo and stem cell research?

journal_name

Cell Stem Cell

journal_title

Cell stem cell

authors

McLaren A

doi

10.1016/j.stem.2007.05.003

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-06-07 00:00:00

pages

23-6

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1

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1934-5909

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1875-9777

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S1934-5909(07)00009-4

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1

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