Updating Protections for Human Subjects Involved in Research. (Policy Perspectives)

Article Abstract:

A Human Research Ethics Group has proposed enlarging the protections afforded to people who participate in medical research as subjects. Individuals who have durable power of attorney should decided whether patients should participate in research if the patient is not competent to make such a decision. Women, children, and minorities should be actively recruited for medical research. Federal regulations should also extend protection to people in clinical trials that do not receive federal funds.

Reports, Human experimentation in medicine, Human medical experimentation, Patients, Medical ethics, Civil rights

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The Ethical Validity of Using Nuclear Transfer in Human Transplantation

Article Abstract:

Therapeutic cloning is the most direct way to correct many diseases. It involves taking the nucleus from a patient's cell and implanting it into a human egg cell that had its nucleus removed. A more descriptive name for this technique is cell replacement through nuclear transfer, since the point is not to create another individual but to replace diseased tissue.

Research, Tissue engineering

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Human therapeutic cloning

Article Abstract:

The same techniques that created Dolly the sheep could be used to treat disease. Researchers would fuse a somatic cell from a patient with an enucleated donor oocyte, which would be allowed to grow into embryonic stem cells. These would then be differentiated into liver, heart, nerve, and pancreatic cells, which would be transplanted into the patient.

Health aspects, Innovations, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation

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