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>Stem Cell Quiz
> http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7584943275535423897&hl=en Well, here's the slideshow we've all been trying to produce. Test your knowledge while finding out current information on stem cell research and how to get involved in human trials ASAP. If you’d like to look at the video at the Google site, it’s here, along with a “Playlist” of what appears to … Continue reading
Cow-human hybrid ban "would cost patient lives."
The pushing of limits never stops. First, as far as we know, no one’s been able to make an embryo by injecting the nucleus of a human into the emptied cell of a cow oocyte. If they have, they aren’t publishing the results and there’s definitely no reports about stem cells from the results. However, … Continue reading
Visitor Number 10,000 could help
It took over a year, and some of those visits are my own viewing of my posts, but sometime this weekend I should have my 10,000th visit to LifeEthics and 15,000th page view. I’m hoping that one of my visitors can help me. Imagine all of the bloggers who have more audience than I do. … Continue reading
Evil (UK) restrictions (no hybrids), again
The sky is falling, once again, because of those evil pro-life people who want to kill patients because oppose placing human DNA in cow eggs: Scientists say disease research at risk after ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to embryo proposalsLYNDSAY MOSS HEALTH CORRESPONDENT (lmoss@scotsman.com) VITAL research into devastating diseases could be put in jeopardy because of government opposition … Continue reading
New Poll on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Before I comment on the poll, please take another look at the statement that I published earlier by Maureen Condic, Ph.D.: “. . . there is no compelling scientific argument for the public support of research on human embryos.” . . . Immune rejection, tumor formation, and embryonic development have proved themselves to be profoundly … Continue reading
Nature is free this month
Not the wide open outdoors, but the Journal. Full free content for the January, 2007, issue of the Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology, an official publication of the American College of Gastroenterology. If you want to read about treatment guidelines for your tummy upsets or about Napolean’s Gastric Carcinoma, here’s your free sample issue.
Maureen Condic in First Things on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
“. . . there is no compelling scientific argument for the public support of research on human embryos.” Memorize this sentence before you call your Congressman and Senators about next week’s vote on the DeGette-Castle Bill (they’re also calling it the “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Bill,”). You can tell them that your source is this … Continue reading
Choosing Tomorrow Today
Go read Nigel Cameron’s Choosing Tomorrow, today! (I can’t resist red buttons marked “push” or puns.) I’ve been writing a piece on “Public Health Ethics,” part of which I dredged up for my comment on this remark of Dr. Cameron’s, “Bioethics” is an optical illusion. Which is not to say that we don’t need IRBs … Continue reading
Noted: "A Noteworthy Purchase of Votes"
From BetterHumans, the Kurzweil blog: NewsA Noteworthy Purchase of Votes(From NY1). It should be no new news that public funds are used to buy votes, but it is noteworthy, to me at least, that the battle over directing taxes poured into the trough to embryonic stem cell research has settled this far: “He’s calling for … Continue reading
>Noted: "A Noteworthy Purchase of Votes"
>From BetterHumans, the Kurzweil blog: NewsA Noteworthy Purchase of Votes(From NY1). It should be no new news that public funds are used to buy votes, but it is noteworthy, to me at least, that the battle over directing taxes poured into the trough to embryonic stem cell research has settled this far: “He’s calling for … Continue reading
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