1、The risk to the fetus must be minimal and the purpose of the research must be development1of important biomedical knowledge which cannot be acquired by other means. Minimal risk isdefined as that the probability and magnitude of harm or discomfort expected in the study are notgreater than those ordi
2、narily faced in daily life or the performance of routine physical orpsychological tests, 45 CFR 46.208(a)(2), and 46.102.In vitro fertilization, the term pre-implantation embryo refers to the entity which exists2during the first 14 days of development following fertilization. Peter Singer et al,. Em
3、bryoExperimentation (Cambridge University Press, 1990) p. xi, 4.Congressional Research Service The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS Web95-910 STMUpdated January 29, 1998Human Embryo ResearchIrene Stith-ColemanSpecialist in Life SciencesScience, Technology, and Medic
4、ineSummaryThe FY1998 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act, P.L. 105-78, enacted onNovember 13, 1997, prohibits the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from fundinghuman embryo research in fiscal year 1998. This ban applies to all federally supportedinvestigations involving the creation of a human
