Altered Nuclear Transfer
To the Editor: Altered nuclear transfer is a procedure that has been proposed as a morally acceptable means of procuring human embryonic stem cells. 1 In their Perspective article, Melton et al. (Dec. 30 issue) 2 appear to misunderstand, and therefore prematurely dismiss, the promising possibilities...
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Published in: | The New England journal of medicine Vol. 352; no. 11; pp. 1153 - 1154 |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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United States
Massachusetts Medical Society
17-03-2005
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Summary: | To the Editor:
Altered nuclear transfer is a procedure that has been proposed as a morally acceptable means of procuring human embryonic stem cells.
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In their Perspective article, Melton et al. (Dec. 30 issue)
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appear to misunderstand, and therefore prematurely dismiss, the promising possibilities of this proposal.
The proposal for altered nuclear transfer, which was developed in wide consultation with leading scientists, moral philosophers, and religious authorities, represents a “third option” — a technological solution to the current moral impasse regarding the destruction of human embryos to obtain embryonic stem cells.
Using the techniques of somatic-cell nuclear transfer, but with . . . |
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Bibliography: | SourceType-Other Sources-1 content type line 63 ObjectType-Correspondence-1 ObjectType-Commentary-2 |
ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJM200503173521121 |