November 27, 2006
Scientists propose to use the immature eggs (precursor cells) from aborted baby girls to create human embryos for experimentation and destruction. Human embryonic stem cells have produced none of the cures foreshadowed. (The Daily Telegraph)
November 27, 2006
Selection may be the first step on a slippery slope toward “designer babies.” Parents, encouraged today to sex-select simply because it makes them happy, may someday want to use the fruits of genetic science to select the height, body type, … Read More
November 27, 2006
“Spiritual beliefs consciously or unconsciously play a decisive role in whether people accept or reject biotechnology in human medical therapies and in agricultural biotechnology,” says a Princeton University molecular biologist and author. (Capital Press)
November 27, 2006
As Federal Parliament resumes debating stem cells this week, the rhetoric may become more strident and the distinction between morality, faith, science and politics less clear. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
November 26, 2006
The Alliance for Medical Research, which has loose affiliations with Baylor College of Medicine, put out a video, “Regenerative Medicine: Pathway to Cures,” which I demonstrated conclusively is thoroughly mendacious, propagandistic, and permeated with junk biology. Here is how the … Read More
November 25, 2006
Well, it seems that my post on Dawkins supporting eugenics was linked over at the Richard Dawkins official WEB site. In a comment to the post, Dawkins explains that the piece in the Herald was excerpted from an article he … Read More
November 24, 2006
My piece in the Daily Standard is out today deconstructing the ridiculous piece of propaganda drivel: “Regenerative Medicine: Pathway to Cures” produced by the Houston-based Alliance for Medical Research. Science depends on intellectual integrity to be, well, science. Pathway to … Read More
November 22, 2006
The scientific journal Nature today issued a clarification of a recent report that human embryonic stem cells could be derived without harm to the embryo, but the journal affirmed the report’s scientific validity. (New York Times)
November 22, 2006
And here we have been told that Republicans engage in phony science: In Texas, a report is about to come out about cloning and stem cell research. But three Democrats refuse to sign and have leaked to the press that … Read More
November 22, 2006
A federal judge agreed with a Tampa executive’s claim that the antidepressant Paxil prompted him to embezzle $1.8 million from a former employer. (AP)
November 22, 2006
Korea’s top bioethics regulator will today deliberate tightened guidelines for the donation of human eggs and sperm for medical and research purposes. (The Korea Herald)
November 22, 2006
In what one lawmaker says could signal gridlock on stem cell research in the upcoming legislative session, three Democrats have refused to sign a House committee report that they say doesn’t offer a “scientifically accurate” view. (Houston Chronicle)
November 22, 2006
A building boom under way in the U.S. hospital industry is sparking concern about economic and geographic disparities in health care. Much of the construction is occurring in fast-growing suburbs, as hospitals target the most affluent, insured patients who can … Read More
November 22, 2006
With the groundbreaking of a $10 million facility Monday afternoon, MU could be poised to tackle some of the largest medical problems through the tiniest of technologies. (Columbia Missourian)
November 22, 2006
Nanotechnology has enormous potential to transform science, but Europe will lose out to countries such as the US and Japan unless it can mount a coherent approach, scientists have warned. (vnunet)
November 22, 2006
Nano-technology can be utilised for numerous purposes and so countries across the globe are making huge investments in the newly-emerged sector. (Express News Service)
November 22, 2006
Many American doctors believe it’s important to take part in public activities such as political involvement, community participation and collective advocacy, according to a study in the Nov. 22/29 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. (HealthDay)
November 22, 2006
The new PlayStation 3 isn’t all about entertainment. That’s the message Sony is trying to convey in announcing that the new game consoles — as powerful as supercomputers — can help Stanford University researchers analyze complex human protein structures and … Read More
November 21, 2006
There he goes again: I missed this at the time, but last May, Princeton University’s Peter Singer urged in an on-line periodical that brain damaged human beings be used in HIV research rather than chimpanzees. From the story “An Ethical … Read More
November 21, 2006
Anti-humanity is on the march in the Netherlands. On one hand they permit the increasing killing of sick, disabled, and depressed human beings, but are on the verge of supporting the Animal Rights Party to the extent that these radicals … Read More
November 21, 2006
Richard Dawkins, the proselytizer for atheistic materialism, apparently supports human breeding programs. This is what Dawkins wrote in “Eugenics May Not Be Bad” from the 11/19/06 edition of Scotland’s Sunday Herald: In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the … Read More
November 21, 2006
Stem cell research is a much debated and controversial topic in modern medicine. However, the controversy around embryonic stem cells has also sparked an interest in a less ethically risky option: using stem cells taken from adults to treat various … Read More
November 21, 2006
California’s $3 billion stem cell research program marked a key advance Monday when a state committee cleared the way for $195 million in funding despite legal challenges that continue to block the funds authorized by voters in 2004. (Sacramento Bee)
November 21, 2006
It took 12 surgeons, six operating rooms and five donors to pull it off, but five desperate strangers simultaneously received new organs in what hospital officials Monday described as the first-ever quintuple kidney transplant. (AP)
November 21, 2006
A woman left infertile after cancer treatment says she is “really scared” at the prospect of losing her court case over her frozen embryos. (BBC)
