April 12, 2011
Study shows, for the first time, the successful reprogramming of diseased human hepatocytes into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). (Medical News Today)
April 12, 2011
Human umbilical cord blood-derived mensenchymal stem cells (uMSCs) have been found to offer benefits for treating lupus nephritis (LN) when transplanted into mouse models of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). SLE is an autoimmune disease with “myriad immune system aberrations” characterized … Read More
April 12, 2011
A retina made in a laboratory in Japan could pave the way for treatments for human eye diseases, including some forms of blindness. (Nature News)
April 12, 2011
For women undergoing fertility treatment, frozen donor eggs may work as well as fresh ones, a study at one fertility clinic suggests. Researchers found that of 77 women treated at a clinic in Cyprus, those who received eggs that had … Read More
April 12, 2011
Dates: Thursday, April 28 and Friday April 29, 2011 Times: 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM This two-day conference, one in an annual series devoted to ethical issues in population and global health, will examine the ethics of new strategies for … Read More
April 12, 2011
Sometimes it is hard not to feel that the media and the medics between them have things the wrong way round. Earlier this week, a report from the Human Genetics Commission recommended that genetic testing for a range of conditions … Read More
April 12, 2011
The nation has a huge need for kidneys, livers and other organs for transplant, but federal law has one absolute rule for donors: no HIV infections. (Los Angeles Times)
April 12, 2011
A woman in Britain gave birth to her own cousin after she agreed to become a surrogate mother to help her aunt, who had been struggling for 15-years to conceive. (Daily India)
April 12, 2011
The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 11, Issue 2) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Behavioral Equipoise: A Way to Resolve Ethical Stalemates in Clinical Research” by Peter A. Ubel and Robert Silbergleit, 1-8. “A Life Worth Giving? … Read More
April 12, 2011
The New England Journal of Medicine (Volume 364, Issue 7, February 16, 2011) is now available on-line and by subscription only. Articles include: “Under Siege — The Individual Mandate for Health Insurance and Its Alternatives” by Jonathan Oberlander, available here. … Read More
April 11, 2011
Scots scientists have grown kidneys in a laboratory – in a breakthrough that could solve the problem of organ donor shortages. Edinburgh University researchers created the kidneys from stem cells taken from human amniotic fluid and animal foetuses. (Daily Record)
April 11, 2011
Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology (Volume 3, Issue 2, March/April 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Nanomedicine and Ethics: Is There Anything New or Unique?” by Todd Kuiken, 111–118.
April 11, 2011
Few people actually want to sit around and think about what will happen once they die, but it’s a necessary discomfort for the sake of ensuring that final wishes are known. Living in the digital age has brought a new … Read More
April 11, 2011
I am very excited to learn that starting in July, Netflix will have every Star Trek episode from every series available for instant streaming. And since I’ve been alluding to Star Trek quite a bit when touching on issues of … Read More
April 11, 2011
As a grad student, Cynthia Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms. The key, she realized: training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds robots that teach, learn … Read More
April 11, 2011
New parents, particularly mothers, devote so much time and energy to their children that they often fail to adequately look after their own health, a new study in the journal Pediatrics suggests. The study, which followed about 1,500 high school … Read More
April 11, 2011
The act of mind reading is something usually reserved for science-fiction movies but researchers in America have used a technique, usually associated with identifying epilepsy, for the first time to show that a computer can listen to our thoughts. (Science … Read More
April 11, 2011
It’s one of the great frustrations of obstetric medicine: humans have been reproducing for hundreds of thousands of years, and yet doctors still haven’t unraveled the mystery of why some women give birth well before their babies have fully developed … Read More
April 8, 2011
FutureMed today launched a contest to attend its newly launched executive program dedicated to where exponential technologies, medicine, healthcare and biomedicine collide and are headed. FutureMed is held at Singularity University on the NASA-Ames Research Park in Mountain View, CA … Read More
April 8, 2011
Earlier this week, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in the ongoing lawsuit challenging the legality of human gene patents. Mounting the appeal were Myriad Genetics Inc. and the University of Utah Research Foundation, … Read More
April 8, 2011
TOP appeal court the Cour de Cassation has decided that a French couple’s twins born in America to a surrogate mother cannot be officially registered as their daughters on the French état civil. (The Connexion)
April 8, 2011
Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology (Volume 4, Issue 3) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Artificial Companions: Empathy and Vulnerability Mirroring in Human-Robot Relations” by Mark Coeckelbergh. “Brain Gene Transfer and Brain Implants” by Rolando Meloni, Jacques … Read More
April 8, 2011
For women undergoing fertility treatment, frozen donor eggs may work as well as fresh ones, a study at one fertility clinic suggests. Researchers found that of 77 women treated at a clinic in Cyprus, those who received eggs that had … Read More
April 8, 2011
The Journal of the American Medical Association (Volume 305, Issue 6, February 9, 2011) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Live Kidney Donation: A 36-Year-Old Woman Hoping to Donate a Kidney to Her Mother” by Martha Pavlakis, 592-599. … Read More
April 8, 2011
When the first antibiotics were introduced in the 1940s, they were hailed as “wonder drugsâ€, the miracles of modern medicine. And rightly so. Widespread infections that killed many millions of people every year could now be cured. Major diseases, like … Read More
