January 9, 2008
Success Of The Great Fertility Egg Sale
Fifteen women from the region are to donate eggs for stem cell research in exchange for half-price fertility treatment as part of a pioneering scheme. (The Northern Echo)
Cloning
January 7, 2008
FDA to Back Food From Cloned Animals
Having completed a years-long scientific review, the Food and Drug Administration is set to announce as early as next week that meat and milk from cloned farm animals and their offspring can start making their way toward supermarket shelves, sources … Read More
December 27, 2007
OP-ED: Reprogramming human stem cells could replace using embryonic cells
Recent stem cell research advances, heralded as great news by a number of people, have not included the terms “clones” or “embryos.” The primary goal for stem cell research, aside from Nobel prizes, patents and off-the-scale profits, has been therapeutic … Read More
December 19, 2007
More Lies from Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures
The human cloners over at Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures are sure a disingenuous lot, for example, claiming in Amendment 2 to have outlawed human cloning when the measure actually legalized it. Now, a representative has a letter in the … Read More
December 18, 2007
Caution urged in new method for stem cells
The stem cell wars are not over, say leading researchers at Harvard and other universities who believe that the cloning of human embryos still represents the key to developing effective treatments for an array of horrific diseases. (Boston Globe)
December 18, 2007
Disgraced SKorean stem cell scientist seeking to resume research
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
Op-Ed: Can opposition to research spur innovation?
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
kwmu NewsRoomStem cell debate continues in MO, despite breakthrough
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 Koreans Clone Cats that Glow in the Dark
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
Strings Attached to MO Life Science Funding: Blame Amendment 2
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
Lead Into Gold: Moral Value of Embryo Led to Great Breakthrough
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
Australia: More success with stem cells
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
Watchdog delays decision on whether to allow creation of ‘cybrid’ embryos
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
‘Science is a wonderful thing, but we need to be patient. False promises do not help’
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
The Folly of Proposition 71’s “Fools Gold Rush”
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
Just Because Someone Wants Something, Does That Mean Doctors Should Do It?
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
New laws to create cloned babies
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
Dolly creator Prof Ian Wilmut shuns cloning
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
Ian Wilmut Rejects Human Cloning!
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
Unequally Yoked
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
UN Bureaucrats Refuse to Listen to General Assembly: Push Formal Cloning OKAY
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
Cloning: a giant step
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
UN Report: Human Cloning Ban Needed
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
World faces choice on human cloning: U.N. study
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
ESCR May be a “Dream”; Bring on the Reproductive Cloning
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
