August 28, 2006
Over the weekend there has been quite a bit of development regarding last week’s embryonic stem cell announcement. Briefly, Advance Cell Technology (ACT) of Worcester, Massachusetts published an article in the science journal Nature on Wednesday, August 23, 2006, purporting … Read More
August 25, 2006
My anxiety given how far we have come in just four years is that they (scientists) want a little a bit of cloning now, and in a couple of years time they will want a little bit more cloning, and … Read More
August 24, 2006
New Embryonic Stem Cell Study Smoke and Mirrors Says Bioethicist Chicago, Illinois – August 24, 2006 – Bioethics professor C. Ben Mitchell says that a Massachusetts laboratory’s claim to have developed a new way to derive embryonic stem cells without … Read More
August 23, 2006
California: Stem cell group asks for first grant proposals (Sacramento Business Journal) Australia: Health Minister Abbott Warns on Stem Cell Cloning (The Australian) Music Makes Your Brain Happy (Wired) More drugs get slapped with lawsuits (USA Today) CDC Releasing Flu … Read More
August 22, 2006
Choice of Health Care ‘Proxy’ Often Surprising (HealthDay) Australia: Cloning can affect votes, MPs told (The Age) Cord Blood Registry’s Newborn Possibilities Program (Washington Times) Placebo’s power goes beyond the mind (MSNBC) Gene clue to premature birth risk (BBC) Half … Read More
August 21, 2006
Australian PM changes mind over conscience vote on cloning (BioNews) A New Wonder Drug? Just Wait (HealthDay) HIV ‘switches off’ immune cells (BBC) The Outlaw Drug: Despite Its Popularity, Most H.G.H. Use Is Illegal (New York Times) Raging Hormones (New … Read More
August 18, 2006
We’re not likely to get enough data to get definitive results to say we’re ready to treat all children with diabetes. But hopefully it will generate enough data to support future studies of cord blood with other agents. — Dr. … Read More
August 18, 2006
TV Found to Be a Painkiller for Children (AP) Illinois hands out another $5 million in stem cell research grants (AP) Disgraced S.Korean stem cell scientist back in lab (Reuters) Shanghai: First umbilical cord blood bank opens (Shanghai Daily) FDA, … Read More
August 17, 2006
A trio of articles today address issues of increasing life spans and decreasing fertility rates. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) alerts us to the “Latest Custody Battle: Who Gets Mom?†Some of the thorniest custody battles these days are … Read More
August 14, 2006
Michael Cook, Editor of the internet magazine MercatorNet has an excellent article on an adoption agency in San Antonio that is offering custom-made embryos for adoption. It’s a shocking yet somehow inevitable perversion of the good work of embryo adoption … Read More
August 14, 2006
On June 20, DoNoHarm: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics and BOGO Wines hosted a reception in Washington D.C. entitled “A Toast to Adult and Cord Blood Stem Cells.†The event was an opportunity to meet and hear the … Read More
August 11, 2006
A virtual human can be pushed and prodded pretty much as you would a real human. Surgeons would never have to go to cadavers for any of their training. One could use such a model to plan surgical processes even … Read More
August 10, 2006
I just received a postcard from Georgetown University Press about the new book Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, and Moral Anthropology by Carol R. Taylor and Roberto Dell’Oro (link to publisher’s page and link to Amazon). It looks like … Read More
August 10, 2006
World Magazine takes a look at stem cell politics in Missouri as one example of how the stem cell issue is playing out on the state level.
August 9, 2006
I’ve just come across this review from January, but it’s worth highlighting if only so that we not fall victim to the tyranny of the new.
August 8, 2006
The Scientist has on their website a table with information on more than three dozen clinical trials evaluating the use of adult stem cells to treat heart disease. Take a look.
August 8, 2006
For those of you interested in transhumanism — you know who you are — the Australian internet magazine MercatorNet* recently ran a couple of articles on the topic: Merging man and machine and The quest for proactive evolution. * This … Read More
August 3, 2006
Neuroscience has uncovered compelling links between biology and moral behavior. What this means for our notions of personal responsibility is an open question. Science and Spirit.
July 21, 2006
Over the weekend, someone pointed out to me the complicated nature of the commenting process. As an author, I’m always logged in, so I wasn’t aware of what visitors had to go through post comments. In short, the commenting procedure … Read More
July 21, 2006
National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Dr. David Prentice on the debate over adult vs. embryonic stem cells. Lopez: As you listen to the debate in Washington — what’s most misunderstood about stem-cell research? Dr. Prentice: 1) The hope … Read More
July 21, 2006
On the heels of President Bush’s veto of an attempt to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research in the United States comes word that Germany’s research minister, Annette Schavan, has sent a letter to the European Union pressing … Read More
July 21, 2006
Robert George and Patrick Lee skillfully dismantle a recent attack — launched as a letter to the editors of the journal Science — on DoNoHarm’s list of adult stem cell benefits to human patients. Excerpts: The letter was timed to … Read More
July 20, 2006
The peer-reviewed Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine contains an article (PDF) by a doctor in Lisbon Portugal who is treating spinal cord injury patients with their own stem cells. This is the same doctor who treated Jacki Rabon, a young … Read More
July 20, 2006
James P. Kelly, a man who suffered a spinal cord injury in 1997 is probably all for embryonic stem cell research, right? Nope. In fact, he calls President Bush’s veto “A Cause for Hope.†Mr. Kelly has chronicled his personal … Read More
July 19, 2006
Associated Press: “the House voted 235-193 to overturn Bush’s veto, 51 short of the required two-thirds majority.â€
