Fetal Research and Applications -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Setting the Stage: Fetal Research, Fetal Tissue Research, and Historical Timeline of Regulation and Legislation -- FETAL RESEARCH -- FETAL TISSUE RESEARCH -- HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF REGULATION AND LEGISLATION -- 1973 -- 1974 -- 1975 -- 1978-1980 -- 1985 -- 1987 -- 1988-1989 -- 1993 -- SESSION I Ethical and Legal Issues of Fetal Research: History and Background -- ETHICS AND FETAL RESEARCH: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE -- FEDERAL AND STATE REGULATIONS OF FETAL RESEARCH: A CURRENT PERSPECTIVE -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD -- SESSION II Preembryo Research -- OVERVIEW: MODERN IDEAS IN EMBRYO RESEARCH -- MICROMANIPULATION RESEARCH IN CLINICAL EMBRYOLOGY -- PROGRESS IN REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN HUMAN IVF -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD -- PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC ANALYSIS OF SINGLE HUMAN BLASTOMERES -- STUDIES ON DNA SEQUENCES IN SINGLE HUMAN GAMETES -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD -- SESSION III Fetal Research -- OVERVIEW: THE FETUS AS A PATIENT: THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIALTY -- PERCUTANEOUS UMBILICAL BLOOD SAMPLING -- EMBRYOSCOPY AND NEW ADVANCES IN FETAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD -- MATERNAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM: ROLE IN INTRAUTERINE AND LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT OF THE OFFSPRING -- HORMONAL REGULATION OF HUMAN FETAL GROWTH -- CLINICAL EVALUATIONS OF FETAL LOSS: RELEVANCE AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD -- THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS IN UTERO -- FETAL THERAPY -- TRANSPLANTATION OF FETAL LIVER HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS IN UTERO -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD -- APPLICATIONS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS TO DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICOLOGY -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD -- SESSION IV Fetal Tissue Transplantation -- PLASTICITY AND COMMITMENT IN THE DEVELOPING MAMMALIAN BRAIN -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD.

STEM-CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN HUMAN BRAIN DISEASE -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD -- FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION FOR PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE -- IMPROVING FETAL NEURONAL GRAFT TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE USE OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES TO MEET THE NEEDS OF HUMAN THERAPEUTIC… -- OPEN DISCUSSION PERIOD -- FORCES THAT MOLD THE ANTIBODY REPERTOIRE: LESSONS FROM FETAL LYMPHOCYTES -- ISOLATION OF CANDIDATE HUMAN STEM CELLS USING SCID-HU MICE IMPLANTED WITH HUMAN FETAL TISSUE -- XENOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION: THE USE OF ANIMALS FOR ORGAN DONORS -- Highlights and Themes -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Conference Agenda -- Appendix B Conference Participants -- Appendix C Summary of Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research.