May 3, 2007
Op-Ed: Standing up for the most vulnerable
On these pages, University students protest all sorts of things. What students don’t protest is the work done at the University’s Stem Cell Institute. (Minnesota Daily)
Cloning
May 2, 2007
Missouri stem-cell resolution rejected
A Missouri House committee votes against a proposal that sought to ban research approved by voters last year. (Kansas City Star)
May 1, 2007
Oregon: Bill would support stem cell research
Oregon would join a half-dozen states in helping fund stem cell research under a bill set for debate next week in the state House of Representatives. The bill, passed Monday by the House Health Care Committee, would create a fund … Read More
May 1, 2007
UK: Parliament to Host Stem Cell Seminar
Law, policy and ethics experts will gather at the House of Lords today for a seminar to inform Parliament of the facts and arguments on stem cells that they say have often been ignored or discounted in public discussion. (Christian … Read More
May 1, 2007
Australia: MPs tipped to oppose cloning bill
Cabinet ministers are expected to be among a group of Labor MPs who will oppose the State Government’s controversial stem cell legislation when it reaches the Victorian upper house this week. (The Age)
May 1, 2007
Op-Ed: Embryo cloning claptrap – is there no limit to public gullibility?
It is one of the unhappier jobs of a doctor to tell a patient she is a victim of false hope. But somebody has to do it, and guide her back to reality and any genuine hope for treatment. (On … Read More
April 30, 2007
The Possible Future of Cloning
Although several animal species such as goats, sheep, pigs, mice and even kittens have been cloned, the mere mention of human cloning continues to spark a fevered debate. But if human cloning were to become acceptable one day would they … Read More
April 26, 2007
Michigan Poll: People Oppose All Human Cloning–But Just You Wait
This poll, published by the Michigan Catholic Conference, asked 500 likely voters in Michigan, their views on human cloning. The results were an overwhelming repudiation of cloning human life. Not so fast, some might say. It is, after all, a … Read More
April 26, 2007
Op-Ed: Australia: Politicians must guard the gates to cloning
We read recently of the Brisbane woman who flew to India to receive injections of embryonic stem cells into her spinal injury. It is one of the unhappier jobs of a doctor to tell a patient he or she is … Read More
April 20, 2007
Australia on path to legalize therapeutic cloning
Australian politicians begin their first round of votes this week to decide the fate of a controversial new law that could legalize therapeutic embryonic cloning in the country for the first time. (DrugResearcher)
April 20, 2007
Stem Cells: Beyond Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
Despite the heated ethical and moral debate, research on embryonic stem cells has been forging ahead at breakneck speed. But before these cells make a dent in the clinic or in drug discovery, researchers must learn how to create cell … Read More
April 20, 2007
Stem cell debate rekindles in Michigan
A coalition including some advocacy groups and Democratic state lawmakers is reviving efforts to remove barriers on embryonic stem cell research in Michigan. (Boston Globe)
April 18, 2007
Argentine cow clones to produce insulin in milk
Argentine scientists said on Tuesday they had created four cloned and genetically modified calves capable of producing human insulin in their milk, a step they said could cut the cost of treating diabetes. (Reuters)
April 17, 2007
Op-Ed: Australia: A risk to women’s health
We are given emotive stories of how somatic cell nuclear transfer will miraculously cure those with degenerative diseases. We are presented with images of people suffering and told they will be cured by experimenting with specially created embryos. But how? … Read More
April 16, 2007
Doing the Stem Cell Pivot
Now that Big Biotech has won elections in CA and MO, and the Bush funding policy is on the ropes, Big Biotech and their boosters in the media are changing their stories. Whereas before, it was about direct CURES! CURES! … Read More
April 12, 2007
Australia: Cloning an assault on human dignity: archbishop
THE Catholic Church has launched a pre-emptive strike on controversial legislation that would allow the cloning of human embryos for medical research, saying it would be “an assault on the dignity of the human person”. (The Age)
April 12, 2007
Australia: New guidelines to protect egg donors
WOMEN should not be paid to donate their eggs for medical research, and should be fully informed of the risks of the invasive procedure, according to national draft guidelines. (The Age)
April 11, 2007
Bush Stem Cell Statement
Here is the statement issued today by the White House about the passage of Senate Bills 5 (overturn Bush funding policy) and 30 (fund “alternative” approaches). Agree or disagree with the Bush policy, I think this point made by the … Read More
April 11, 2007
Australia: Conscience vote divides MPs
The controversial issue of cloning human embryos for medical research is set to split the Beattie Government. (Courier-Mail)
April 9, 2007
Testing Time: Are Democrats Pro Science?
We hear a lot of sturm and drang that President Bush is “anti-science” because of his opposition to human cloning and full federal funding of destroying embryos for ESCR. But these positions don’t make the President anti-science: That dispute is … Read More
April 7, 2007
Joplin Globe: Incompetence in Editorializing
It stuns me sometimes how utterly ignorant media can be about human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Not only does ignorance drive bad public policies, but it can be harmful. The Joplin Globe committed both journalistic sins in this … Read More
April 5, 2007
Hybrid embryo ban ‘unnecessary’
Government plans to ban the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos could potentially harm UK science, say MPs. (BBC)
April 4, 2007
Op-Ed: What is the Church’s Response to Human Commoditization?
Recently we have seen public commentators devote significant attention to the negative effects of relativism. Those arguing against relativism are in actuality missing an even greater hazard. Over the last few years, there is a noticeable shift in the way … Read More
April 3, 2007
Op-Ed: Australia: Biotech leaders can still honor ethics
I always argue for, and defend, human life, but why? Because life is every person’s first good. Each and every other good stems from it. This is deduced from reason. Individually and collectively we need to ensure that human life … Read More
April 3, 2007
Op-Ed: Nascent Falsehood
On March 13, a group of patients of suffering from various diseases descended upon Capitol Hill, lobbying their lawmakers to fund the therapies that had successfully treated them — therapies involving the use of adult stem- cells. (National Review Online)
