Embryonic stem cell research: Terminological ambiguity may lead to legal obscurity

Medicine and Law

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-28

  Hansen, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cloning; Embryo; Ethics; European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine; Law; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMBIGUITY; BIOMEDICINE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYO CELL; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NETHERLANDS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

EID: 2342445219     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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