Contrary to these wild claims, the regulation does not circumscribe a Member State's right to refuse to countenance embryo, stem-cell-based therapies.
Mr. Matheussen likened research using human embryo stem cells to experimenting on humans.
Therapeutic applications of embryo cloning -- still a distant promise -- cannot be developed without first overcoming significant research hurdles with embryo stem cells derived from non-clonal embryos.
Bush administration opposition to stem cell research is based on the argument that it requires destroying embryos, each potentially representing a human life.
Boston I.V.F., a group of fertility clinics based in Waltham, Mass., recently agreed to supply Harvard researchers with frozen embryos for stem cell research.
As a result, German infertility clinics do not generate spare embryos for stem cell research.
Cloning embryos for stem cell research presents distinct ethical issues, because cloning requires human eggs.
Because harvesting stem cells from human embryos kills the embryo, they agreed, stem cell research is the equivalent of killing a human being.
Even then, only 3 out of 110 embryos yielded stem cells.
A team led by Dr. Hwang reported in 2004 that it had made cloned human embryos and stem cells.
Equine embryo-derived stem cells.
