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The arguments displayed in the presentations, objections, comments and correspondence are developed more in depth in the following articles:

Suarez A., M. Lang and J. Huarte. 2006. Is there a scientific basis to distinguish the moral status of biological entities? The example of parthenotes. Contributed paper at the XII General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Rome, 27th-28th February 2006. Embryoperson, published online 22. March 2006 [PDF]

Huarte J. and A. Suarez. 2004. On the status of parthenotes. Defining the developmental potentiality of a human embryo, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Winter: 535-550.

Background publications

Carrasco de Paula I. 1999. Liceità dell’uso dei parametri della morte cerebrale per l’accertamento della morte di una persona [Legitimation of the brain death criteria for ascertaining a person’s death], Annales Theologici 13: 475–488.

Cobbe N. 2006. Why the apparent haste to clone humans? Journal of Medical Ethics 32: 298-302

Graf R. 2003. Klonen: Prüfstein für die ethischen Prinzipien zum Schutz der Menschenwürde, St. Ottilien, Germany: EOS Verlag.

Huarte J. 1991. L’individualité biologique de l’embryon humain [the biological individuality of the human embryo], Bioéthique 2: 248–251.

Suarez A. 1993. Sono l’embrione umano, il bambino con anencefalia ed il paziente in stato vegetativo persistente persone umane? Una dimostrazione razionale a partire dai movimenti spontanei, [Are the human embryo, the anencephalic child, and the patient in permanent vegetative state human persons? A rational proof on the basis of the spontaneous movements] Acta Philosophica 2: 105–125.

Suarez A. 1993. La différentiation cellulaire qui a lieu chez l’embryon après son implantation dans la paroi utérine n’est pas commandée par des messages provenant de la mère: Un théorème biologique [The Cellular Differentiation Which Takes Place in the Embryo after Its Establishment in the Uterine Wall Is Not Ordered by Messages Coming from the Mother: A Biological Theorem], Médecine et Hygiène 51: 399–401.

Suarez A. 1990. Hydatidiform Moles and Teratomas Confirm the Human Identity of the Preimplantation Embryo, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 15: 627–635.

Suarez A. 1990. Ist der menschliche Embryo geistig beseelt? [Has the Human Embryo a Spiritual Soul?], Annales Theologici 4: 69–107.

Suarez A. 1990. Darf man dem Embryo den verfassungsrechtlichen Schutz der Menschenwürde absprechen? [Does the human embryo enjoy the protection human dignity deserves in the constitutional law?] Schweizerische Juristen Zeitung 86: 205–211.

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The following publications and sites are referred to in the presentations, objections, comments and correspondence, or are closely related to the discussed subjects.

Austriaco N.P.G. 2002. On Static Eggs and Dynamic Embryos: A Systems Perspective, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Winter: 659–683.

Carnegie Stages Comparison Graph (Species/Days), Accessed July 9, 2005 at: http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/OtherEmb/Mouse.htm.

Chawengsaksophak K. et al., “Cdx2 is essential for axial elongation in mouse development”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101.20 (May 18, 2004): 7641-7645.

Chen Z.F. and R.R. Behringer. 1995. Twist is required in head mesenchyme for cranial neural tube morphogenesis, Genes & Development, 9: 686-99.

Coghlan A. 2004. New Scientist, 184: 17

De Vries J.I.P., G.H.A. Visser and H.F.R. Prechtl. 1982. The Emergence of Fetal Behaviour: I. Qualitative Aspects, Early Human Development 7: 301–322.

Fraidenraich D. et al. 2004. Rescue of Cardiac Defects in Id Knockout Embryos by Injection of Embryonic Stem Cells, Science, 306: 247-252.

Gardner R.L. et al. 1990. Use of triple tissue blastocyst reconstitution to study the development of diploid parthenogenetic primitive ectoderm in combination with fertilization-derived trophectoderm and primitive endoderm, Genetical Research 56: 209-222.

Grompe M. and R. George. 2005. Creative Science Will Resolve Stem-Cell Issues, Wall Street Journal, June 20: A14.

Hurlbut W. B. 2004. Altered nuclear transfer as a morally acceptable means for the procurement of human embryonic stem cells. The President’s Council of Bioethics, Background materials for the Meeting December 2-3, 2004 (Accessed March 6, 2005 at www.bioethics.gov/background/hurlbut.html).

Hurlbut W. B. 2005a. Altered nuclear transfer as a morally acceptable means for the procurement of human embryonic stem cells. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 48: 211–28.

Hurlbut W. B. 2005b. Correspondence: Altered Nuclear Transfer, The New England Journal of Medicine, 352: 1153.

Hurlbut W. B. 2005c. Reply, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Spring: 21.

Joint Statement. 2005. Production of Pluripotent Stem Cells by Oocyte Assisted Reprogramming. CBHD Posted June 20 (Accessed July 28, 2005 at: www.cbhd.org/resources/stemcells/jointstatment_2005-06-20.htm).

Kiessling A.A. 2005. Eggs alone”, Nature 434: 145.

Kono T. et al. 1996. Epigenetic Modifications During Oocyte Growth Correlates with Extended Parthenogenetic Development in the Mouse, Nature Genetics 13: 91–94.

Kono T. et al. 2002. Mouse Parthenogenetic Embryos with Monoallelic H19 Expression can Develop to Day 17.5 of Gestation, Developmental Biology 243: 294–300.

Kono T. et al. 2004. Birth of Parthenogenetic Mice that Can Develop to Adulthood, Nature 428: 860–864.

Loebel D.A.F. and P.P.L. Tam. 2004. Genomic imprinting. Mice without a father, Nature, 428: 809-811.

Melton D.A., G. Daley, and C.G. Jennings. 2005. Correspondence: Altered Nuclear Transfer. The New England Journal of Medicine, 352: 1154

Melton D.A., G. Daley, and C.G. Jennings. 2004. Altered Nuclear Transfer in Stem-Cell Research — A Flawed Proposal, The New England Journal of Medicine, 351: 2791-2792.

Melton D.A., G. Daley, and C.G. Jennings. 2005. Correspondence: Altered Nuclear Transfer. The New England Journal of Medicine, 352: 1154.

Mitsui, K. Y. et al. 2003. The homeoprotein Nanog is required for maintenance of pluripotency in mouse epiblast and ES cells. Cell 113: 631-42.

President’s Council of Bioethics. May 2005. Alternative sources of human pluripotent stem cells. A White Paper, Washington D.C. (Accessed July 31, 2005 at: www.bioethics.gov)

Rogers N. T. et al. 2004. Phospholipase Cz causes Ca 2+ oscillations and parthenogenetic activation of human oocytes, Reproduction 128: 697–702

Rossant J. and A. Spence. 1998. Chimeras and mosaics in mouse mutant analysis, Trends Genet. 14: 358-363

Sánchez-Pernaute R. et al. 2005. Long-term survival of dopamine neurons derived from parthenogenetic primate embryonic stem cells (Cyno1) after transplantation, Stem Cells Express, doi:10.1634/stemcells.2004-0172.

Strain L. et al. 1995. A human parthenogenetic chimaera, Nature Genetics 11:164–169.

Surani M.A.H. 2002. Immaculate Misconception, Nature 416: 491–493.

Videos showing spontaneous fetal motility : www.mamma.ch/de/hintergrund_embryo.htm
www.createhealth.org/dimensional.html

Vogel G. 2005. Embryo-free techniques gain momentum, Science 309: 240-241.

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