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Values in Conflict: Public Attitudes on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2005-10)
Stem cells are unique among human cells in that they possess the uncanny ability to develop into virtually any other cell of the body, offering a hypothetical tool kit for repairing diseased hearts, mending broken spinal ...
Reproductive Genetic Testing: What America Thinks
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2004)
Advances in reproductive genetic technologies offer prospective parents an increasing array of options to help them have healthy babies, but these same advances also can raise troubling questions about the extent to which ...
Human Germline Genetic Modification: Issues and Options for Policymakers
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2005)
Germline genetic modification is possible in animals, but not yet in humans. If certain technical obstacles were overcome, human germline genetic modification (HGGM) could allow human beings to create permanent heritable ...
Reproductive Genetic Testing: Issues and Options for Policymakers
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2005)
Reproductive genetic testing offers prospective parents information about their risk of having a child with a genetic disease or characteristic. This information can be used to help prospective parents make reproductive ...
Public Awareness and Attitudes about Reproductive Genetic Technology
(Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2002)
Americans are both hopeful and fearful about the rapidly advancing power of scientists to manipulate human reproduction, according to a new survey released today by the Genetics and Public Policy Center, a Johns Hopkins ...