December 18, 2007
Hwang Woo-suk is part of a team that requested the Health Ministry last week for permission to carry out research on embryonic stem cells using human eggs, said Jung Tae-gil, an official handling the case at the ministry. (International Herald … Read More
December 17, 2007
When California’s US$3 billion Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, Proposition 71, was approved by voters in November 2004, the crucial paragraph did not mention embryonic stem cells (ES cells). (Nature)
December 14, 2007
Last month, two teams of researchers announced that they’ve been able to make ordinary skin cells act like embryonic stem cells. It’s a major breakthrough in the science world because it has the potential to remove the ethical and moral … Read More
December 13, 2007
South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, officials said Wednesday. In a side-effect, the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet … Read More
December 11, 2007
A column in the KC Star grouses that the state is funding life sciences research into animal and plant experiments, but not human studies. From the column by Jason Gertzen: The Missouri General Assembly created the trust fund and the … Read More
December 11, 2007
In the NRO, I credited President Bush’s ESCR funding restrictions for having played a part into the quest to find non-embryonic sources of pluripotent stem cells–cells “the scientists” insisted they needed to fulfill the total promise of regenerative medicine. My … Read More
December 7, 2007
Australian church leaders have called for a review of federal legislation passed a year ago allowing therapeutic cloning in Australia, based on the iPS breakthrough, but scientists have argued that it would be premature to reinstate a ban. (Sydney Morning … Read More
December 6, 2007
Scientists seeking to create embryos that are part human and part animal will have to wait until next year before beginning work, after a Government watchdog decided to delay a decision on two licence applications. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology … Read More
December 6, 2007
He was the man who brought the world Dolly the sheep, but 10 years on why has Professor Ian Wilmut turned his back on the cloning of human embryos? (Yorkshire Post)
November 23, 2007
California is once again sinking into the quicksand of red ink. Latest estimates show that the state must cut its budget by $10 billion! This will come out of the hides of university students, poor people needing health care, and … Read More
November 18, 2007
The cultural ethic of “choice ubber alles” is growing increasingly radical. We have seen previously, that a few bioethicists have advocated that doctors be permitted to cut off healthy limbs of people suffering from Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID), also … Read More
November 18, 2007
British couples could soon be able to have babies created using DNA from two women and a man as part of a revolutionary human cloning technique. Controversial legislation due to be debated by politicians this week sets out ways to … Read More
November 18, 2007
The scientist who created Dolly the sheep, a breakthrough that provoked headlines around the world a decade ago, is to abandon the cloning technique he pioneered to create her. Prof Ian Wilmut’s decision to turn his back on “therapeutic cloning”, … Read More
November 16, 2007
Well, this is some unexpected good news: Ian Wilmut is turning his back on human cloning. Wilmut has had several positions on this morally contentious and volatile issue. In his book The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological … Read More
November 14, 2007
What do Chuck Colson, Brandon Keim, and Carl Zimmer have in common? They each had much to say on 13 November 2007 about humans and animals, although with very divergent opinions. Some might call this “being unequally yoked.†Colson, in … Read More
November 12, 2007
A few years ago, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a non-binding (as are all UN pronouncements) resolution urging all member nations to outlaw all human cloning. But now, UN bureaucrats ignore this approach–the only one that would truly … Read More
November 12, 2007
For the first time, scientists have created dozens of cloned embryos from adult primates. But what are the implications of this technical breakthrough for the future of mankind? A technical breakthrough has enabled scientists to create for the first time … Read More
November 12, 2007
The international community faces a stark choice: outlaw human cloning or prepare for the creation of cloned humans, U.N. researchers said Saturday. Previous attempts to reach a binding worldwide treaty foundered over divisions on whether to outlaw all cloning or … Read More
November 12, 2007
The world faces a stark choice between banning cloning of humans or preparing ways to protect them from potential abuse or discrimination, a U.N. study said on Sunday. Experts at the U.N. University’s Institute of Advanced Studies said it would … Read More
November 10, 2007
For years now, I have been arguing that the siren song of human cloning has led many among “the scientists” to dream the dreams of the omnipotent, to toss aside the ethical beliefs of the society they are supposed to … Read More
October 31, 2007
The fix is in for New Jersey voters to go $450 million in debt to fund embryonic stem cell research, now that the courts have permitted a bogus ballot description to go out to voters. Few voters will read the … Read More
October 26, 2007
“The scientists,” by which I mean the politicized advocates for a financial and ethical blank check in human cloning, genetic engineering, and other awesomely powerful biotechnologies, are upset. The poor babies are grousing about the potential for government regulation–in the … Read More
October 25, 2007
Alta Charo is a wild booster of ESCR and human cloning research. We have gotten along fine when I have debated her, even when she accused me in a luncheon keynote address at last year’s Albany bioethics conference of being … Read More
October 24, 2007
Controversial laws to allow therapeutic cloning have been passed by the Lower House of Tasmania’s Parliament. (ABC News)
October 18, 2007
Since the KC Star’s Kit Wagar continues refusing to report the stem cell debate accurately or objectively, I thought a few further examples of true scientific definitions are in order–definitions propounded by SCNT supporters, but which Wagar appears to care … Read More
