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adult (ah-dult´) having attained full growth or maturity, or an organism that has done so.
adult, n 1. a person who has the fully developed characteristics of a mature person. n 2. a person who has reached full legal age. adult having attained full growth or maturity, or an organism that has done so. |
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Any attempt to produce a genetically identical human individual by nuclear substitution from a human adult or child cell ('reproductive cloning') should be prohibited"; this conclusion is reached in light of the considerations of instrumentalization and eugenics which render cloning ethically unacceptable, as well as potential safety considerations. The authors believe these results describe the highest increase in death rates for arsenic-related lung cancer and bronchiectasis ever documented among young adults, and add that this study is one of the first to provide evidence of human adult disease resulting from prenatal and early childhood exposure to any environmental toxicant. While most of City of Hope's stem cell research over the past 30 years has concentrated on human adult and non-human fetal cells, the hospital has begun studies utilizing both older federally approved human embryonic stem cell lines as well as new lines. |
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