June 21, 2007
DuPont and Environmental Defense, one of the nation’s largest environmental groups, plan to release jointly developed guidelines today for evaluating the safety and environmental risks of nanotechnology products. The guidelines are the most extensive effort yet to address a vexing … Read More
June 21, 2007
Along with the text of the executive order, the White House released several supporting documents of explanation and information: 1) Fact sheet: President Bush Discusses Stem Cell Veto and Executive Order, 2) Fact sheet: Message to the Senate of the … Read More
June 20, 2007
Church-state boundaries came under close scrutiny in Australia recently, with a no-holds barred debate over stem cell legislation. At the end of May the ruling Labor Party in the state of New South Wales announced legislation to overturn a previous … Read More
June 20, 2007
Rational arguments need to take priority in the debate on bioethical issues, says the director of the Linacre Center for Healthcare Ethics. (Catholic Online)
June 20, 2007
Human therapeutic cloning has moved a step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully created embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos. (Reuters)
June 20, 2007
President Bush has chosen to use his veto pen three times – twice on the stem cell issue where politics, ethics and science collide. (AP)
June 20, 2007
The global grandees of therapeutic cloning recently gathered in sun-soaked Cairns, the gateway to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, for their annual conference. They have serious strategic issues to deal with along with their scientific papers and posters: persuading governments to … Read More
June 20, 2007
PEOPLE IN the Boston area are proud of their healthcare system, and with good reason. It is one of most powerful engines of the regional economy, and has helped produce a 79 1/2 -year average life expectancy in Massachusetts, 18 … Read More
June 20, 2007
I will miss the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) 1990 Act when it is gone. I am no great supporter of our regulatory model and the 1990 Act is flawed and idiosyncratic. However, if you are going to regulate … Read More
June 20, 2007
Volume 5 Issue 2 of Theology and Science is now available. Full content is available by subscription only. “Is it the Lure of Ethical Laxity that Woos stem cell scientists to Singapore?” by Ted Peters, P. 119
June 19, 2007
Last year, Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology, claimed to have derived human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos. That report turned out to be, shall we say, exaggerated. In fact, ACT’s researchers had destroyed all the embryos they worked … Read More
June 19, 2007
As pre-released online. Full content is available by subscription only. Original Articles “Choosing embryos: ethical complexity and relational autonomy in staff accounts of PGD” by Kathryn Ehrich, Clare Williams, Bobbie, Farside, Jane Sandall and Rosamund Scott “‘It puts things out … Read More
June 19, 2007
As pre-released online. Full content is available by subscription only. Original Articles “Should We Prevent Non-Therapeutic Mutilations and Extreme Body Modifications?” by Thomas Schramme “The Development and Nature of the Ordinary/Extraordinary Means Distinction in the Roman Catholic Tradition” by Scott … Read More
June 19, 2007
Imagine that you are depressed and see a psychiatrist who explains that you have clinical depression and would benefit from an antidepressant. So far, so good. But then the doctor tells you there is a 60 percent chance that you’ll … Read More
June 19, 2007
The rapid advances of the neurosciences have drawn much attention from philosophic quarters. According to many, the neurosciences are providing insights into age-old questions about freewill, responsibility, personality, agency, emotion, rationality, and even the very nature of morality. (Metapsychology)
June 19, 2007
U.S. scientists say they have for the first time extracted stem cells from cloned primate embryos, bringing human therapeutic cloning one step closer. (Cbc.ca)
June 19, 2007
Research into a new embryo transfer procedure has shown that many women having IVF could be treated with a single embryo without lowering their chance of conceiving a child. Yacoub Khalaf, of Guy’s Hospital London, led the study into a … Read More
June 19, 2007
Supporters and opponents of embryonic stem cell research look at the same facts but interpret them differently. (Journal Star)
June 19, 2007
Using stem cells from a mouse embryo, Japanese scientists say they have generated functioning kidneys in three mice, an advance applauded yesterday by American scientists who see the development as a significant step toward stem cell-derived kidneys for humans. (Newsday)
June 19, 2007
The desperation of the infertile would-be mother knows no bounds. Lee Cowden, aching to conceive, was pumped full of hormones to make her produce more eggs. The result? A trip to hospital — but not to a maternity suite. (Daily … Read More
June 19, 2007
Scientists have created a new stem cell line from a clinically unusable human egg in a development that could have major implications for research into illnesses such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, liver disease and diabetes. (University of Manchester)
June 19, 2007
NSW politicians seem to think that the thousands of eggs needed for human cloning will magically fall out the sky. That’s the impression you get reading through the speeches on the cloning Bill in the Lower House last week. You … Read More
June 18, 2007
As pre-released online. Full content is available by subscription only. Xenotransplantation literature update “Xenotransplantation literature update MarchApril, 2007” by Reto M. Baertschiger and Leo H. Buhler Original Articles “No evidence of PERV infection in healthcare workers exposed to transgenic porcine … Read More
June 18, 2007
Scientists have inched closer to one day developing a drug that will extend the human life span. They’re still not close, mind you, but closer. At least that’s the message in a study of the humble roundworm that tackles the … Read More
June 18, 2007
Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released for Sunday. (Reuters)
