June 11, 2007
Human cloning researchers are again whining that their important work is being held back by a lack of human eggs. This time, it is researchers from Harvard, as reported a few days ago in the Boston Globe. From the story: … Read More
June 11, 2007
Researchers have developed a new material that can fill in its own surface cracks. (Technology Review)
June 11, 2007
South Korea’s disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who is on trial for criminal fraud, is in Thailand to discuss joining an international consortium for human embryonic stem cell research, a news report said on Monday. (Scientific American)
June 11, 2007
HOW much is your life worth? How about a year of life? How much is your vision worth? What about being pain-free? Able to walk unassisted? Have sex? Unanswerable questions all. Or maybe not. (New York Times)
June 11, 2007
The Government has decided not to fund a vaccine to immunize girls as young as 12 against a sexually transmitted virus. (The Epoch Times)
June 11, 2007
For years, debate has raged in Canada about euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide without much study of the people who are arguably most affected — those who are themselves dying. (globeandmail)
June 11, 2007
TONY Abbott moved to spark a debate on appropriate boundaries for Australian scientists with the release of a report on ethical dilemmas in medical research. (The Australian)
June 11, 2007
Philip K. Dick was still an obscure pulp novelist known mainly to teenage boys when a friend predicted that he would one day have more impact on the world than celebrated writers like William Faulkner, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. … Read More
June 11, 2007
It’s time to talk about the birds and the bees. No, I don’t mean sex. You’ve already heard that story: Boy meets girl, sperm meets egg, a baby grows in Mommy’s tummy. That’s the way of all flesh. Or so … Read More
June 11, 2007
Usually when I learn someone is the parent of a child with diabetes, I feel an instant rapport. Even if the person is a stranger, I know so much about what his or her daily life is like: the constant … Read More
June 11, 2007
When the Democrats recaptured the House last fall, Nancy Pelosi promised America that Republican legislative fakery was at an end. (The Buffalo News)
June 10, 2007
…k.i.s.s.i.n.g, as the old childhood ditty goes. Mike Wallace took another giant step outside of objective journalism–assuming it still exists anymore–to come to his pal Kevorkian’s defense with letter to the editor in the New York Times. Kevorkian can’t “evangelize,” … Read More
June 10, 2007
Mitch Albom, a columnist for the Detroit Free Press interviewed Kevorkian face-to-face, and apparently was taken aback by what he experienced. After a little time with Kevorkian, Albom writes, “I couldn’t imagine a suffering so bad that I would want … Read More
June 10, 2007
This article out of Korea about the charlatan, Hwang Wu-suk, is a prophetic warning about what the future may hold. He plans to continue to research human cloning, but not in South Korea. Hwang, who unethically obtained eggs for his … Read More
June 8, 2007
Senator John Edwards was justly ridiculed when he stated in 2004 that people in wheelchairs would be able to walk if John Kerry were elected, because he would alter President Bush’s embryonic stem cell funding policy. This bit of outrageous … Read More
June 8, 2007
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez has whined that the assisted suicide bill was defeated because it was “demonized by the religious right.” Baloney. The religious right has about zero political power in California, particularly in the Assembly.This bill was stopped because … Read More
June 8, 2007
The Kevorkian train continues to roll. Help kill 130 people, most of whom he deemed to have lives not worth living due to disabilities. Seek the right to engage in human vivisection. Tear out one man’s kidneys, an ex cop … Read More
June 8, 2007
Italian scientists are testing a new diet pill that turns into a clear, gelatinous blob the size of a tennis ball that may help shrink waistlines by giving dieters a sense of satiety. (Wired)
June 8, 2007
U.S. researchers have discovered that bone marrow stem cells attracted to an area of cancer growth frequently take on the outward appearance of the cancer cells around them. But they say it’s not clear that these stem cells actually help … Read More
June 8, 2007
An activist group is raising a ruckus about what it says may be the first effort to patent an entirely synthetic free-living organism. It says the patent application, filed by maverick genome sequencer Craig Venter’s institute on an idea that … Read More
June 8, 2007
Computer software developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has made it possible to peer into the human body with greater accuracy. The new noninvasive imaging technology, an outgrowth of JPL’s work on processing images from distant planets, makes it … Read More
June 8, 2007
The Democratic-controlled Congress passed legislation Thursday to loosen restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, but the bill’s supporters lacked the votes needed to override President Bush’s threatened veto. (Associated Press)
June 8, 2007
Hotly contested legislation to allow doctors to prescribe fatal medication to terminally ill patients was shelved Thursday in the Assembly. Assembly Bill 374 lacked enough votes for passage and time was running out, with the Assembly facing a Friday deadline … Read More
June 8, 2007
The results of genetic tests should be available to insurance companies, a leading medical ethics expert has said. (BBC)
June 8, 2007
Cardinal George Pell was delivered a stunning rebuff yesterday when the NSW lower house voted by an overwhelming majority to support stem cell laws that permit therapeutic cloning. A large number of prominent Catholic MPs, including the Premier Morris Iemma … Read More
