July 8, 2010
Many worry that screening embryos pre-implantation, during fertility treatments, opens the door to gender selection and designer babies. But a German court on Tuesday decided to allow the practice. Commentators say that the ruling throws up more questions about genetic … Read More
July 8, 2010
Amy Gutmann, chair of the US presidential bioethics commission, discusses the challenges of bringing synthetic biology to the public arena. (Nature News)
July 8, 2010
Second International Congress Of Bioethics “Morality, Spirituality and Creationism” 20-22 November, 2010 Location (venue details & address): National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Shahrak-e Pajoohesh, km 15, Tehran – Karaj Highway,Tehran, Iran Contact tel: +98 21 44580472 Contact … Read More
July 8, 2010
Cell Stem Cell (Volume 7, Issue 1, July 2, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Patient-Specific Pluripotent Stem Cells Become Even More Accessible” by Shinya Yamanaka, 1. “Tumor Oncogenotypes and Lung Cancer Stem Cell Identity” by James … Read More
July 7, 2010
Nanotechnology’s potential to improve public health will be maximised only with a conducive environment, argues Jayashree Vivekanandan. (SciDev)
July 7, 2010
This week, the University of California, Berkeley will mail saliva sample kits to every incoming freshman and transfer student. Students can choose to use the kits to submit their DNA for genetic analysis, as part of an orientation program on … Read More
July 7, 2010
Fourteen years ago, to protect President Clinton’s position on partial-birth abortions, Elena Kagan doctored a statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Conservatives think this should disqualify her from the Supreme Court. They understate the scandal. It isn’t … Read More
July 7, 2010
Nothing Eileen Oldaker tried could calm her mother when she called from the nursing home, disoriented and distressed in what was likely the early stages of dementia. So Ms. Oldaker hung up, dialed the nurses’ station and begged them to … Read More
July 7, 2010
Prof David Jones said that if society agrees that it is in some people’s interests for them to end their own lives, it is difficult to resist the logical conclusion that others should be helped to die even if they … Read More
July 6, 2010
The announcement that the J. Craig Venter Institute has succeeded (finally) in synthesizing the genome of Mycoplasma mycoides—inserting it into a cell of Mycoplasma capricolum whose genome had been removed, and creating a fully functioning Mycoplasma mycoides—has been heralded as … Read More
July 6, 2010
November 19, 2010 at The Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College in Albany, New York The 2010 AMBI Clinical Ethics Conference is a conference in which keynote speakers, guest faculty and conference participants gather at the Alden March … Read More
July 2, 2010
IN PURSUIT of a long life, expect the dismal prescriptions of clean living: exercise, moderation and a healthy diet. Indeed, such choices may help people exceed average lifespans by up to a decade. But when it comes to the oldest … Read More
July 2, 2010
A recently released study by direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe reveals the privacy challenges ahead for public health policymakers as so-called genome-wide association studies, which look for specific genetic traits in huge genetic databases, enter the mainstream of scientific inquiry. … Read More
July 2, 2010
Frozen blood from stored samples can be used to make cells resembling stem cells, researchers said on Thursday — opening a potential new and easier source for the valued cells. (ABC News)
July 2, 2010
A U.S. bioethics professor is protesting the use of an unapproved drug by New York researchers who she says are trying to prevent homosexuality in the womb. (UPI)
July 2, 2010
“I don’t ever want to die… It wouldn’t suit me,” said Innokenty Osadchy. Fortunately, the 35-year-old investment banker is certain he has found a loophole out of death. Osadchy is ready to pay a small fortune to freeze his brain … Read More
July 2, 2010
Accounting for Health and Health Care: Approaches to Measuring the Sources and Costs of Their Improvement by the Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health Accounts and the National Research Council (The National Academies Press) … Read More
July 2, 2010
Journal of Academic Ethics (Volume 7, Number 4, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Patients as Teaching Tools: Merely Informed or True Consent” by Syed Mamun Mahmud and Aasim Ahmad, 255-260. “The New Biopolitics” by Jiangxia Yu … Read More
July 2, 2010
The Institute for Faith and Learning Baylor University 2010 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture “Human Dignity and the Future of Health Care†October 28-30, 2010 Waco, Texas Inspired by the conviction that a Christian understanding of the dignity of … Read More
July 1, 2010
In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that the rogue bursts of activity on brain scans kept … Read More
July 1, 2010
Even at a hospital recognized for managing seriously ill patients, a systematic assessment of clinical measures associated with end-of-life care identified opportunities to improve treatment for those dying in the hospital, according to a report in the June 28 issue … Read More
July 1, 2010
Bay Area universities and research groups are betting they can spawn a new generation of medical breakthroughs and the next growth engine for the region’s biotechnology industry. (Wall Street Journal)
July 1, 2010
In this paper, I focus on the concept of human dignity and critically assess whether such a concept, as used in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, is indeed a useful tool for bioethical debates. However, I consider … Read More
July 1, 2010
Since the first sex reassignment operations were performed, individual sex has come to be, to some extent at least, a technological artifact. The existence of sperm sorting technology, and of prenatal determination of fetal sex via ultrasound along with the … Read More
July 1, 2010
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 7, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Disaster in the Gulf: Public Health and Public Responsibility” by Summer Johnson, 1-2. “Should Human Beings Have Sex? Sexual Dimorphism and Human … Read More
