May 6, 2013
The veteran 73-year-old arts critic, novelist and broadcaster was deeply affected by watching Alzheimer’s take its toll on his 95-year-old mother for five years until her death last year, and said assisted suicide was an issue for people his age. … Read More
April 29, 2013
Dr. François Jacob, a French war hero whose combat wounds forced him to change his career paths from surgeon to scientist, a pursuit that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his role in discovering how genes are regulated, … Read More
April 26, 2013
Dr. Vincent L. Gott was part of an innovative group of doctors who trained with Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, considered to be the father of open-heart surgery. (CNN)
April 22, 2013
The man who pioneered in vitro fertilization also stirred deep unease about what he was doing. (The Wall Street Journal)
April 11, 2013
Stephen Hawking toured a stem cell laboratory Tuesday where scientists are studying ways to slow the progression of Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurological disorder that has left the British cosmologist almost completely paralyzed. (ABC News)
April 10, 2013
The long list of roles Margaret Thatcher played during her 87 years — potent politician, free-market evangelist, labor antagonist, dominant global leader — includes the one she never publicly discussed: person with dementia. (New York Times)
April 10, 2013
Robert Edwards, a British Nobel prize-winning scientist known as the father of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for pioneering the development of “test tube babies”, died on Wednesday aged 87 after a long illness, his university said. (Reuters)
April 8, 2013
The astonishing story of Henrietta Lacks, who died of cancer in 1951 but whose still living cells are now the basis for much medical research, has captivated the U.S. for the past two years — and there is no sign … Read More
March 14, 2013
From the Vatican to Buenos Aires, Catholics worldwide rejoiced when Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became the new pope. (CNN)
March 14, 2013
Discovering your DNA sequence is cheap and easy, and that genetic knowledge could change – even save – your life. [Op-ed by one of the founders of 23andMe]. (The Guardian)
March 1, 2013
In this interview given the day before a seminar for the creation of a National Bioethics Committee in Trinidad and Tobago, held in Port-of-Spain on 28 February and 1 March 2013, Dr D. Simeon, Director of the Caribbean Health Research … Read More
February 27, 2013
Dr. C. Everett Koop, who was widely regarded as the most influential surgeon general in American history and played a crucial role in changing public attitudes about smoking, died on Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H. He was 96. … Read More
February 4, 2013
A Quebec woman in the process of challenging Canada’s law against assisted suicide has died after struggling with Lou Gehrig‘s disease, her family said. (UPI)
February 1, 2013
The Grammy winner reveals she suffered a miscarriage – and slams rumors she used a gestational surrogate – in her upcoming HBO documentary, Life Is But a Dream – slated to air Feb. 16. (People)
January 15, 2013
Tom Beauchamp, Ph.D., an invited speaker at the 12th meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, has been a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University … Read More
January 4, 2013
Forty years after Roe v. Wade, Joshua Prager examines the life of a woman whose very existence has been defined by an issue. “McCorvey has long been less pro-choice or pro-life than pro-Norma,†Prager writes. “And she has played Jane … Read More
December 18, 2012
Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and futurist who predicts the coming rise of superhuman intelligence, has become Google’s new guru for pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence starting today (Dec. 17). (Live Science)
December 17, 2012
Tom Knight got the bug for bioscience while he was a computer engineer at MIT. He founded the synthetic biology field and help set up bioengineering company Ginkgo BioWorks. He says we’ll soon be able to engineer living things with … Read More
December 7, 2012
A pioneer of stem cell research is suing the assembly that awards the Nobel medicine prize, in a first such lawsuit, over claims it made about this year’s winners, a spokeswoman said Thursday. (Phys.org)
November 27, 2012
Sir Roy Calne is a pioneer of organ transplants — the surgeon who in the 1950s found ways to stop the human immune system from rejecting implanted hearts, livers and kidneys. In 1968 he performed Europe’s first liver transplant, and … Read More
November 26, 2012
Warwick, celebrated as the first cyborg (a superhuman who has both biological and artificial parts in the body), is best known for being the world’s first human to have a chip surgically implanted in his arm and conducting experiments on … Read More
November 21, 2012
Sebastian Thrun, winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for education is redefining the modern classroom. (Smithsonian Magazine)
November 5, 2012
One day in the spring, I went with Charmaine Yoest, head of Americans United for Life, a pro-life advocacy group, to meet two of her five kids at a Barnes & Noble near her office in Washington. (New York Times)
November 5, 2012
Arthur R. Jensen, an educational psychologist who ignited an international firestorm with a 1969 article suggesting that the gap in intelligence-test scores between black and white students might be rooted in genetic differences between the races, died on Oct. 22 … Read More
October 17, 2012
In a conversation with Technology Academy Finland (TAF) at the time of his winning the Millennium Technology Prize earlier this year, and published today exclusively by the Huffington Post, Shinya Yamanaka said a future in which medical drugs are made … Read More
