The National Academies' guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research : 2008 amendments / Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Embryonic stem cells--Research.

Embryonic stem cells.

Human embryo--Research.

Human embryo.

Physical Description:

x, 54 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Caption title on p. i: 2008 amendments to the National Academies' guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research

Guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research

Place of Publication:

Washington : National Academies Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of comprehensive federal funding, was lacking national standards for research. In order to keep the Guidelines up to date, given the rapid pace of scientific developments in the field of stem cell research, the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee was established in 2006 with support from The Ellison Medical Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. As it did in 2007, the Committee identified issues that warranted revision, and this book addresses those issues in a second set of amendments. Most importantly, this book addresses new scientific developments in reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency by adding a new section and revising other relevant sections of the Guidelines.

Contents:

Introduction

Applicability of the guidelines to non-embryonic human pluripotent stem cells

Clarification of the meaning of "proper notification"

1.3(a) hES cell research permissible after currently mandated reviews

Public openness and ESCRO committee audits

2.0 Establishment of an institutional embryonic stem cell research oversight committee

Clarification of policy regarding reimbursement for oocyte donors

National Academies' guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research, amended as of September 2008.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 20).

ISBN:

9786611972943

9780309185677

030918567X

9781281972941

1281972940

9780309122214

030912221X

OCLC:

923279513