Synthetically-generated embryos from stem cells promise new treatments and research, but the cutting edge research has the NIH taking a hard look at possible legal issues.
Federal appropriations language known as the Dickey-Wicker amendment bars creating human embryos for research purposes, If these artificially-created cell structures meet the legal definition of an embryo, that could limit the practice. To sort out the complicated legal and ethical issues surrounding the practice, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Academy of Medicine for its recommendations.
“We just want to make sure that we have a full understanding of the science, so ...
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