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4214948208REASONS FOR EMBRYO RESEARCH Infertlity and repeated miscarriages What does IVF provide the opportunity for?A better understanding of infertility0
4214948209What can experimentation discover?Why so many embryos die on being placed in the womb1
4214948210Detection of genetic abnormalities What does the process allow is to know?More2
4540957020Because, it is impossible to know..The status of an 8-cell embryo in Vivo (the womb)3
4214948211However, embryo biopsy allows the cells to be investigated at the...4-8 cell stage4
4214948212What can this help?To reveal any abnormalities5
4214948213In order for medical science to progress at some stage in research , experimentation has to take place...On humans6
4540957021and not through...computer modelling or animal experimentation7
4214948214But some areas of research require experimentation to be carried out on...The foetus8
4214948215Eg experimentation is used for...Contraception9
4214948216What is there a need for?Alternative means to the contraceptive pill used by many women10
4214948217Why?Because the pill can cause undesirable side effects11
4214948218EVALUATION do we need to develop more ...Contraceptives and destroy embryos when we already have plenty12
4214948219What does the human fertilisation and embryology act (1990) permits ....Research to be carried out on the human embryo13
4540957022up to the fourteenth day of..gestation - up to the point where the primitive streak appears14
4214948220What does pre embryo imply?That the embryo is not a human being15
4215032954ISSUES IS THE EMBRYO A PERSON? Embryo should be treated as a...Human being16
4215032955THE BENEFITS OF EMBRYO RESEARCH Provide a very strong argument in favour...Of allowing even very controversial research17
4215032956What has embryology helped?Thousands of childless couples to have babies18
4215032957ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES TO THE USE OF EMBRYOS? It is very hard to be certain that adult stem cells would be...As effective19
4215032958Therefore many supporters of using embryos say that the benefits of research, and the speed with which those benefits will become available,...Justify the use of embryos20
4215032959IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO CREATE EMBRYOS FOR RESEARCH? number of spare embryos available for research is...Very Limited21
4215032960Largely due to....A shortage of human eggs offered for research22
4215032961Those who see an embryo as a human person believe that...It is deeply wrong to create embryos just on research23
4215032962HUMAN ANIMAL HYBRID EMBRYO what did the HFEA announce?That it would consult the public24
4540957023before deciding whether to ...allow researchers to create hybrid human-animal embryos25
4215032963Scientists have successfully created embryos using...Eggs from a cow26
4215032964Any embryo created cannot be implanted or allowed to develop ...Beyond day 1427

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