Green Ronald M
Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College, 27 North Main Street, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3500, USA.
Nat Rev Genet. 2007 Jun;8(6):480-5. doi: 10.1038/nrg2066.
Human embryonic stem-cell (hESC) research faces opposition from those who object to the destruction of human embryos. Over the past few years, a series of new approaches have been proposed for deriving hESC lines without injuring a living embryo. Each of these presents scientific challenges and raises ethical and political questions. Do any of these methods have the potential to provide a source of hESCs that will be acceptable to those who oppose the current approaches?
人类胚胎干细胞(hESC)研究遭到了那些反对破坏人类胚胎的人的抵制。在过去几年里,已经提出了一系列新方法来获取hESC系,同时又不伤害活体胚胎。这些方法中的每一种都带来了科学挑战,并引发了伦理和政治问题。这些方法中是否有任何一种有潜力提供一种hESC来源,从而为那些反对当前方法的人所接受?