Ethics

Experts Grapple with Ethics of Stem Cell Technology

Published in Blood Weekly, February 1st, 1999

The technology of stem cell research, which scientists think might one day cure diseases such as Huntington's and undo damage from heart attacks, could also be used to genetically manipulate children, an expert in the U.S. warned.

Erik Parens, Hastings Center in Garrison, New York, and other experts said a U.S. presidential advisory commission would have to grapple with issues ranging from eugenics to whether desperate infertile couples can be taken advantage of by scientists.

They spoke to the first meeting of the U.S. National Bioethics Advisory Commission on the issue of embryonic stem cells - cells taken from very early embryos that have the...

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