In vitro pre-vascularization is one of the main vascularization strategies in the tissue
engineering field. Culturing cells within a tissue-engineered construct (TEC) prior to …

ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE
WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD Political experts John B …

During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political
debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum …

Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil
society like never before. From farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing that …

Most accounts of the ethics of stem cell research are de‐contextualised reviews of the
ethical and legal literature. In this chapter we present a socially embedded account of some …

Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics. Increased immigration flows, the
collapse of communism, and the globalization of communications technologies have all …

Cloning-few words have as much potential to grip our imagination or grab the headlines. No
longer the stuff of science fiction or Star Wars-it is happening now. Yet human cloning is …

How is the embryo defined, envisaged, imagined? Who speaks on its behalf, and how?
Based on a study of UK press and TV news reporting, this paper identifies the rhetorical …

OBJECTIVE: To describe factors that affect infertility patients' decision making regarding
their cryopreserved embryos. DESIGN: Forty-six semistructured in-depth interviews of …

Israel endorses one of the world's most liberal regulations of embryonic stem cell (ESC)
research and human cloning. After an introduction to the technologies and their regulation in …