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>Ethical Guidelines for Unethical Research
>Oxymoron time at the National Academies of Science. Election day, November 7th, is the also the first day of the two day Public Symposium of the National Academies of Science on their “Guidelines” for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. How can there be ethical guidelines for a basically unethical enterprise? I see that Shinya Yamanaka, … Continue reading
Texas, UK, ethical stem cells, "artificial" livers and biased reporting
I cannot imagine why anyone would take the news that livers have been grown from umbilical cord blood cells and turn it into a story on human embryonic stem cells. But, someone did. Last year, we learned that UK scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston used NASA … Continue reading
>Texas, UK, ethical stem cells, "artificial" livers and biased reporting
>I cannot imagine why anyone would take the news that livers have been grown from umbilical cord blood cells and turn it into a story on human embryonic stem cells. But, someone did. Last year, we learned that UK scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston used NASA … Continue reading
International Oocyte Trafficking Has Begun
The British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has an article by BC Heng (abstract is here) detailing the practice of obtaining oocytes (“eggs”) from women in developing countries. Heng supposes that not only the women more susceptible to financial pressures to “donate” their eggs, but the fact that the drugs to induce superovulation are cheaper … Continue reading
>International Oocyte Trafficking Has Begun
>The British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has an article by BC Heng (abstract is here) detailing the practice of obtaining oocytes (“eggs”) from women in developing countries. Heng supposes that not only the women more susceptible to financial pressures to “donate” their eggs, but the fact that the drugs to induce superovulation are cheaper … Continue reading
ASBH Final Day: Hurricanes, Feminists, and more Public Health Ethics
“Religion and Reproductive Freedom” was presented from a feminist bioethics view on Sunday, the final day of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities annual conference. I’m fairly sure that no one else noticed the irony. The predictable results are discussed below. Throughout the conference, I tried to attend presentations by Texans, in order to … Continue reading
>ASBH Final Day: Hurricanes, Feminists, and more Public Health Ethics
>”Religion and Reproductive Freedom” was presented from a feminist bioethics view on Sunday, the final day of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities annual conference. I’m fairly sure that no one else noticed the irony. The predictable results are discussed below. Throughout the conference, I tried to attend presentations by Texans, in order to … Continue reading
Day 3 ASBH: Chimeras, Public Health, and Bioethics Bloggers
We also had the annual Member’s meeting, where our new President, the bioethicist for Planned Parenthood and NASA, Paul Root Wolpe,Ph.D., gave his first official speech. Unfortunately, this speech (like many talks this week) was full of political and ethical bias. I’m not sure how to take the President wondering why there are so few … Continue reading
>Day 3 ASBH: Chimeras, Public Health, and Bioethics Bloggers
>We also had the annual Member’s meeting, where our new President, the bioethicist for Planned Parenthood and NASA, Paul Root Wolpe,Ph.D., gave his first official speech. Unfortunately, this speech (like many talks this week) was full of political and ethical bias. I’m not sure how to take the President wondering why there are so few … Continue reading
Texas T-cells trained to kill viruses
Texas scientists have developed a method to extract virus-killing “T-cells” and induce them to attack 3 types of viruses, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, and adenovirus. The cells can then be placed back in the body of the original patient. This technique is useful in the care for patients after bone marrow transplants, when the patient is … Continue reading
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