Embryo research and problems Flashcards

4214948208	REASONS FOR EMBRYO RESEARCH Infertlity and repeated miscarriages What does IVF provide the opportunity for?	A better understanding of infertility	0
4214948209	What can experimentation discover?	Why so many embryos die on being placed in the womb	1
4214948210	Detection of genetic abnormalities What does the process allow is to know?	More	2
4540957020	Because, it is impossible to know..	The status of an 8-cell embryo in Vivo (the womb)	3
4214948211	However, embryo biopsy allows the cells to be investigated at the...	4-8 cell stage	4
4214948212	What can this help?	To reveal any abnormalities	5
4214948213	In order for medical science to progress at some stage in research , experimentation has to take place...	On humans	6
4540957021	and not through...	computer modelling or animal experimentation	7
4214948214	But some areas of research require experimentation to be carried out on...	The foetus	8
4214948215	Eg experimentation is used for...	Contraception	9
4214948216	What is there a need for?	Alternative means to the contraceptive pill used by many women	10
4214948217	Why?	Because the pill can cause undesirable side effects	11
4214948218	EVALUATION do we need to develop more ...	Contraceptives and destroy embryos when we already have plenty	12
4214948219	What does the human fertilisation and embryology act (1990) permits ....	Research to be carried out on the human embryo	13
4540957022	up to the fourteenth day of..	gestation - up to the point where the primitive streak appears	14
4214948220	What does pre embryo imply?	That the embryo is not a human being	15
4215032954	ISSUES IS THE EMBRYO A PERSON? Embryo should be treated as a...	Human being	16
4215032955	THE BENEFITS OF EMBRYO RESEARCH Provide a very strong argument in favour...	Of allowing even very controversial research	17
4215032956	What has embryology helped?	Thousands of childless couples to have babies	18
4215032957	ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES TO THE USE OF EMBRYOS? It is very hard to be certain that adult stem cells would be...	As effective	19
4215032958	Therefore 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 embryos	20
4215032959	IS IT ACCEPTABLE TO CREATE EMBRYOS FOR RESEARCH? number of spare embryos available for research is...	Very Limited	21
4215032960	Largely due to....	A shortage of human eggs offered for research	22
4215032961	Those who see an embryo as a human person believe that...	It is deeply wrong to create embryos just on research	23
4215032962	HUMAN ANIMAL HYBRID EMBRYO what did the HFEA announce?	That it would consult the public	24
4540957023	before deciding whether to ...	allow researchers to create hybrid human-animal embryos	25
4215032963	Scientists have successfully created embryos using...	Eggs from a cow	26
4215032964	Any embryo created cannot be implanted or allowed to develop ...	Beyond day 14	27