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Common Ground Possible?
As the header states, LifeEthics is an attempt at finding and working from common ground. A reader asks why I would respond to an invitation to a bioethics conference and round table discussion from the Center for American Progress and the Women’s Bioethics Project. The question should be why wouldn’t I be welcome, in light … Continue reading
>New Calendar of Events
>I’m trying out the (free) on-line Trumba Calendar, in order to publish dates and details on meetings that might be of interest to readers of Bioethics blogs. Click here, or see the link at the side bar, right. Please let me know about meetings in your location and I will try to keep up with … Continue reading
New Calendar of Events
I’m trying out the (free) on-line Trumba Calendar, in order to publish dates and details on meetings that might be of interest to readers of Bioethics blogs. Click here, or see the link at the side bar, right. Please let me know about meetings in your location and I will try to keep up with … Continue reading
>Closed meeting of "Feminist" "Progressive" "Women" Bioethicists
>Proving the timeliness of next week’s American Society of Bioethics and Humanities’ June 13-14th summer conference, entitled “Bioethics & Politics – The Future of Bioethics in a Divided Democracy,” I have been denied admission to a “pre-conference briefing and round-table discussion.” It looks like they’re ensuring that everyone at the pre-conference will be closed- like-minded. … Continue reading
Closed meeting of "Feminist" "Progressive" "Women" Bioethicists
Proving the timeliness of next week’s American Society of Bioethics and Humanities’ June 13-14th summer conference, entitled “Bioethics & Politics – The Future of Bioethics in a Divided Democracy,” I have been denied admission to a “pre-conference briefing and round-table discussion.” It looks like they’re ensuring that everyone at the pre-conference will be closed- like-minded. … Continue reading
>Truly ethical (adult to embryonic) stem cells (But . . .)
>Last month I reported that International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting in Toronto was to be the site for a report about research from Texas research firm, Pharmafronteirs. The July 6th issue of Nature has a News article on an announcement of the discovery of one way to cause adult cells to become embryo-like … Continue reading
Truly ethical (adult to embryonic) stem cells (But . . .)
Last month I reported that International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting in Toronto was to be the site for a report about research from Texas research firm, Pharmafronteirs. The July 6th issue of Nature has a News article on an announcement of the discovery of one way to cause adult cells to become embryo-like … Continue reading
>"Virgin Birth Stem Cells" are not ethical
>With the sexy title, “Virgin Birth Stem Cells Bypass Ethical Objections,” today’s on-line New Scientist is hyping the possibility of producing embryonic stem cells from induced parthenogenesis, the stimulation of an oocyte (or “egg”) to begin dividing to produce an embryo. The flawed reasoning is that, since these embryos are short lived and do not … Continue reading
"Virgin Birth Stem Cells" are not ethical
With the sexy title, “Virgin Birth Stem Cells Bypass Ethical Objections,” today’s on-line New Scientist is hyping the possibility of producing embryonic stem cells from induced parthenogenesis, the stimulation of an oocyte (or “egg”) to begin dividing to produce an embryo. The flawed reasoning is that, since these embryos are short lived and do not … Continue reading
MIT Scientist on Harvard’s Cloning
Harvard alumnus James L. Sherley, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the Biological Engineering department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has “come out” with his opposition to cloning and destructive embryonic stem cell research. In particular, Professor Sherley, a Pew scholar credited with research on the “assymetrical” division of adult stem cells, is quoted in Australia’s … Continue reading
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