October 9, 2006
College students seeking to pay their bills may be tempted by egg donor agency advertisements with five-figure compensation values. Egg donor agencies and donor banks seeking young women commonly place daily advertisements in college newspapers, such as the Daily Bruin. … Read More
October 9, 2006
And researcher James Sherley, who begins a week-long tour of Australia today to lobby politicians over moves to legalize cloning, believes many scientists oppose the contentious method. (The Australian)
October 9, 2006
Karen at Flash Point weighs in on cosmetic surgery and the quest for true beauty, asking, “whatever happened to the human face?â€
October 9, 2006
Michael Cook, editor of MercatorNet, critiques the logic behind embryo-destructive stem cell research, and calls on advocates of embryo-destructive research to press their own arguments to logical conclusions.
October 9, 2006
Stateline.org has an overview of state-level stem initiatives in the current election cycle.
October 9, 2006
Last month the Vatican hosted a symposium entitled, “Stem Cells: What Future For Therapy?†Pope Benedict’s remarks have recently been translated into English and posted on the Vatican website. One section that stands out are the remarks he made in … Read More
October 5, 2006
Medscape has a four-part roundtable discussion addressing the question “Could Disaster Conditions Ever Justify Euthanasia?†A Bright Line by Robert W. Donnell, MD I believe that our profession must apply moral absolutes in matters of life and death. Eliminate Suffering, … Read More
October 5, 2006
Several sources are reporting that scientists are planning to fuse human cells with rabbit eggs in order to create embryos for experimentation. Here are links to a couple of great articles on the topic of transgenics: “Human/Animal Transgenics: When is … Read More
October 4, 2006
November is national hospice month, but in reading an article in the Washington Post about Art Buchwald leaving hospice and returning to work I came across a sidebar that mentions a couple of resources worth pointing out. The National Hospice … Read More
October 4, 2006
The X Prize Foundation, sponsor of a widely noted 2004 award for developing a reusable rocket suitable for private space travel, says it is now teaming with a wealthy Canadian geologist to offer $10 million to any team that can … Read More
October 3, 2006
Family Research Council has just released a video on stem cell research entitled Beyond Hype, Real Hope. You can watch the video online, or you can order a free copy on DVD on the FRC website.
October 3, 2006
Sarah J. Flashing, founder and director of The Foundation for Women of Faith in Culture, joins us as she blogs her way through the new book Stem Cell Wars. I’ve known Sarah for about four years. We were students together, … Read More
September 28, 2006
Cedarville University is launching a Center for Bioethics this fall. The official launch is set for early October, but their website is already up and running. The director of the Cedarville Center is Biology Prof, Dennis Sullivan, M.D., who wrote … Read More
September 28, 2006
We’ve been working to improve the RSS feeds on bioethics.com. RSS is a relatively new technology that many people find makes browsing and keeping up with favorite blogs and websites easier. For more on RSS, have a look at the … Read More
September 22, 2006
After a brief hiatus, The Bioethics Podcast has returned with an episode on discourse in the public square. As always, you can subscribe at iTunes and Yahoo!.
September 21, 2006
LEARN, Inc., the Life Education And Resource Network, A network of African American Pro-Life & Pro-Family Ministries and Organizations is hosting a two-day conference in Philadelphia on October 8 & 9. Website here. Schedule here.
September 19, 2006
Britain’s groundbreaking stem cell bank is less than two weeks away from announcing its readiness to begin distributing embryonic cell lines, its chief executive Glyn Stacey said on Tuesday. (The Scientist)
September 19, 2006
Now, researchers at Northwestern University have found new evidence that hematopoietic stem cells, a type of adult stem cell derived from the bone marrow that gives rise to blood cells, are capable of undergoing more diverse transformations than previously thought … Read More
September 19, 2006
Australian doctors using adult stem cells to treat heart failure say they have had success with their first three patients. (ABC News Online)
September 16, 2006
By undergoing various kinds of coaxing, adult bone marrow cells appear able to replace any cell in the body. (Web MD)
September 14, 2006
HarperCollins announced Tuesday that Michael Crichton’s next novel, NEXT will focus on genetics. Crichton, trained as a medical doctor, has a history of using bioethics issues to drive his plots. His novel Prey involved nanotechnology, and way back in the … Read More
September 12, 2006
I’ve just become aware of an outstanding article that deserves your thoughtful consideration. Published in March of this year in BMC Medical Ethics, the open access article examines the intersection of specific views on human dignity, atrocities committed by the … Read More
September 8, 2006
I spoke with [some] colleagues the other day and they mentioned three cases recently where parents blatantly asked for the medication so that their children would perform better in school, yet there were no other indications that the child had … Read More
September 8, 2006
Received via email The Tenth Anniversary of the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy will be highlighting the diversity in health care law practice and the evolution of the field over the past decade. The Journal is currently soliciting … Read More
September 6, 2006
UPDATE: Reuters reports Senators trying to promote human stem cell research rebuked a team of corporate scientists on Wednesday, saying their claims to have produced human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryo had misrepresented their work and hurt the … Read More
