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
October 12, 2012
Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and a pioneer of artificial intelligence software, has always been one of the most provocative thinkers on technology and its future. When he spoke at the Demo conference last week, it was … Read More
October 12, 2012
Keith Campbell, a prominent biologist who worked on cloning Dolly the sheep, has died at 58, the University of Nottingham said Thursday. (Huffington Post)
October 8, 2012
The Conservative government scrambled Friday to distance itself from an early 20th Century public health pioneer it had honoured just a day earlier at a plaque-unveiling ceremony in Ottawa. (The Vancouver Sun)
October 8, 2012
Justice Antonin Scalia says his method of interpreting the Constitution makes some of the most hotly disputed issues that come before the Supreme Court among the easiest to resolve. (CBS News)
September 26, 2012
“Good Morning America†cameras were there last week when co-host Robin Roberts underwent a bone marrow transplant. So were her colleagues Diane Sawyer and Sam Champion, wearing surgical masks and singing songs of encouragement. All of it was on the … Read More
June 3, 2011
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the audacious Michigan pathologist dubbed “Dr. Death” for his role in assisting the suicides of more than 100 terminally ill people, died early Friday at a Detroit-area hospital after a brief illness. (MSNBC)
June 2, 2011
The medical license of the Beverly Hills fertility doctor who assisted Nadya Suleman in conceiving octuplets will be revoked next month, the Medical Board of California announced Wednesday. (LA Times)
May 25, 2011
A hugely controversial doctor who has assisted the suicides of almost 300 patients across the country has spoken of the ‘beauty’ involved in helping ill people die. (Mail Online)
May 18, 2011
When Jane was diagnosed with a muscle-wasting disease five years ago, she was active, physically healthy and had a full-time job. Today, the 70-year-old, who has asked her real name not be used, weighs just 92 pounds. She had to … Read More
May 4, 2011
Several doctors and nurses who treated injured anti-government protesters during the months of unrest in Bahrain will be tried in a military court on charges of acting against the state, the justice minister said Tuesday. (AP)
March 8, 2011
University of Virginia bioethics professor John Arras has been named to a new International Research Panel created by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to consider the standards for protecting human subjects in scientific studies. (UVa Today)
