With recent advancements in the mapping of the human genome, it will soon be possible to identify particular strings of DNA which may cause diseases like cancer or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ... One of these sources is the embryonic stem cell, which is a cell harvested from a non-implanted, frozen, fertilized egg. ... The desires of researchers to utilize embryonic stem cells in their research has opened an ethical debate about whether harvesting stem cells from frozen embryos is tantamount to murder or abortion since the eggs were first fertilized with the intention of implanting them ...

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