On the Future Advances in Engineering and In-Vitro Culture of Human Embryos

Anton, Roman (2016): On the Future Advances in Engineering and In-Vitro Culture of Human Embryos. Forthcoming in: Open Science , Vol. 3, No. 1 (18 May 2016): pp. 1-13.

Abstract

The far-reaching socio-economic, the censored methodologic-scientific, and the forgotten moral-ethical prospects of the lately emerging "human engineering techniques" are newly discussed here. The unanimously unmentioned future "human embryo-based (embryogenic) transplantation methods" are first claimed here as a potential and very powerful biomedical strategy that could now become enabled in the future due to these recent new protocols that could cause an unseen political and societal dilemma regarding their adequate, international, and humane regulation.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: socio-economic; societal; ethical; ethics; censored; method; scientific; stem cell; transplantation; medicine; biomedical; political; regulation; human; embryo; embryos; engineering; mass; production; embryogenic; R&D; research; powerful; xenotransplantation; IVF; in-vitro; in-vivo; culture; fertilization; self-organization; absence; maternal tissues; maternal; tissues; pluripotency; pluripotent; ESCs; Nature; post-implantation; genetic; modification; engineering; stem; cells; chimeric; chimera; IPSCs; induced; pluripotent; stPSCs; debated; discussion; moral status; stem cell business; regenerative; medicine; sector; recent; advance; Brivanlou; Zernicka-Goetz; self-organization; ICM; human-embryo; editing; CRISPR/Cas9; CRISPR; Cas9; transgenics; genetically; modified; human; life; UN; standards; international; guideline; 14-day rule; Carnegie; Carnegie 6a; stage; gene-editing; summit; conference; licence; mosaicism; allele complexity; zygotes; zygote; mouse; germ; line; germline; donor; tissue; organ; blastocyst; transfere; genome; human rights; rights; ligislature; regulations; DPF; HFEA; UK; US; China; EU
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I20 - General; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I28 - Government Policy; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I29 - Other; K - Law and Economics > K2 - Regulation and Business Law; K - Law and Economics > K2 - Regulation and Business Law > K29 - Other; Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology > Z18 - Public Policy

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