{"id":30335,"date":"2016-09-20T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T19:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/researcher-calls-for-animal-human-embryo-research-to-proceed-but-with-strong-animal-protections"},"modified":"2016-09-24T02:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T09:19:40","slug":"researcher-calls-for-animal-human-embryo-research-to-proceed-but-with-strong-animal-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/researcher-calls-for-animal-human-embryo-research-to-proceed-but-with-strong-animal-protections","title":{"rendered":"Researcher calls for animal-human embryo research to proceed, but with strong animal protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a World View opinion column published in <em>Nature<\/em>, a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher calls for animal-human embryo research to proceed \u2014 but only with strong animal protections in place. So-called \u201cchimera\u201d research raises the hope of producing human organs in genetically modified large animals, such as pigs and sheep, offering a potential solution to the persistent shortage of human organs for transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>Insoo Hyun, PhD, associate professor of bioethics, urges such research to proceed only after \u201cknowing the right and wrong ways to treat sentient beings according to complexities of their attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hyun\u2019s recommendations appear in the journal\u2019s September 15th issue and come a week after the National Institutes of Health closed a month-long public comment period on proposed new regulations, widely expected to be adopted, that would lift a moratorium that currently forbids federal funding for chimera embryo research.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/09\/160914142025.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/09\/160914142025.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a World View opinion column published in Nature, a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher calls for animal-human embryo research to proceed \u2014 but only with strong animal protections in place. So-called \u201cchimera\u201d research raises the hope of producing human organs in genetically modified large animals, such as pigs and sheep, offering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30443,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30335\/revisions\/30443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}