[Embryonic stem cell research in Brazil and the (un)constitutionality of article 5 of the biosafety act (Part I)].

Autor: de Sá Mde F, de Oliveiro Naves BT
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Revista de derecho y genoma humano = Law and the human genome review [Rev Derecho Genoma Hum] 2008 Jul-Dec (28), pp. 177-91.
Abstrakt: The Brazilian Law on Biosafety was approved on March 2005. Subsequently, in May of this same year, the Attorney General of the Republic filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutional grounds of article 5 of the aforementioned Law. This article allows the use of embryonic stem cells in research and therapies obtained from surplus human embryos from techniques of in vitro fertilisations.
Databáze: MEDLINE