Tissue issues

Tissue banks trigger worry about ownership issues.

Tissues have what a new generation of researchers need to fi ght cancer: molecular clues to disease origins and a wealth of potential targets for new drugs. But some National Cancer Institute leaders consider a potential shortage of human tissues the single greatest barrier to cancer research. Now, with high-throughput, robotic systems analyzing tissue samples by the thousands, shortages have b...

Ethical issues in fetal tissue transplants.

Ethical issues in organ and tissue transplantation.

Clinical organ transplantation provides a way of giving the gift of life to patients with terminal failure of vital organs, which requires the participation of other fellow human beings and of society by donating organs from deceased or living individuals. The increasing incidence of vital organ failure and the inadequate supply of organs, especially from cadavers, has created a wide gap betwee...

Human tissue: ethical and legal issues.

Job description of MLSOs Histopathologists and cytologists as a group tend to be obsessional individuals which in our work can be a useful trait but when this is taken to extreme degrees it becomes a disease (common sense is ignored and everyday life interfered with). This neurotic state is made much more serious when it is encouraged by bodies responsible for maintaining standards, The Royal C...

Ethical Issues regarding Tissue Engineering from an Engineering Perspective

Every profession today has a code of ethics which are used to hold their members to the highest degree of integrity and professional conduct. In engineering the observation and adherence to these ethics is of the upmost importance. Without a code of ethics to follow engineers could endanger the public and damage their profession’s reputation [8]. Biomedical engineers must take special considera...