AFP
October 18, 2011
Europe’s top court on Tuesday banned researchers from patenting any process to extract stem cells when it leads to the destruction of a human embryo.
In a ruling that could affect medical research, the EU Court of Justice court said the use of human embryos “for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and are useful to it is patentable.”
“But their use for purposes of scientific research is not patentable,” the court ruled.
The EU judges were asked by the German Federal Court of Justice to provide an interpretation of a human embryo following an appeal from a German scientist, whose patent on a method to create nerve cells from human embryonic stem cells was ruled invalid.
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Stem cell research is a sure fire way to send yourself straight to hell. Satan always wanted to play God, and stem cell research leads to the “creation” of humans that God didn’t authorize!! talk about scientists run amock. Don’t do it, fuckers. You have been warned.