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Chapter 1 Introduction Joachim Huarte and Antoine Suarez Chapter 2 Breakthrough in stem cell research? The reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells. Overview and outlook. Boris Greber and Hans Scholer Chapter 3 Pre-implantation stages of human development: the biological and moral status of early embryos Maureen Condic Chapter 4 Complete moles and parthenotes are not organisms Nicanor Austriaco Chapter 5 Embryos grown in culture deserve the same moral status as embryos after implantation. Joachim Huarte and Antoine Suarez Chapter 6 Distinguishing embryos from non-embryos Patrick Lee Chapter 7 Is the human embryo a person? On the status of cell entities produced through ANT Pablo Requena Chapter 8 Does a human being have a right to life? The debate on embryo research in Germany as a case study Manfred Spieker Chapter 9 Interspecies mixtures and the status of humanity. Neville Cobbe Chapter 10 The boundaries of humanity: the ethics of human-animal chimeras in cloning and stem cell research. William Hurlbut Chapter 11 Is this cell entity a human being? Neural activity, spiritual soul, and the status of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Antoine Suarez

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