September 2007

It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle

I’ll be Live on this TV show tonight. Call in if you are in the area and tell me what you think about tonight’s topic! Too Old To Parent? According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the birthrate for women 45 and over more than doubled between 1990 and 2002. [...]

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Human Ova Trade to Be Banned

Dr Hwang is back to work, but part of his legacy in South Korea is this: Limited scientific research on somatic cell nuclear transfers for possible cures of fatal diseases will be permitted following a revision of the relevant law. The law will prescribe the bounds of the research, as well as ban human ova [...]

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Dr. Hwang is back to work AGAIN

Hwang is back at work trying to clone pets and doing chimeras research . . .he’s still on trial for embezzlement and fraudulent research in South Korea. “Disgraced South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk has fled to Thailand to escape controversy and continue his research, associates said Tuesday. Hwang and some 10 other researchers have [...]

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I’m Back

Thank you for your patience while I took some time off over the summer and undertook a much needed blog redesign. I look forward to commenting here on some of the greatest challenges we face in the biotech century!

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Reclaim the Body in Community

In their book Reclaiming the Body, authors Brian Volck, M.D. and Joel Shuman, two individuals intimately involved with the medical community, consider what it is to be a patient navigating the modern medical structure: ‘In our weakest moments, we discover a troubling dependence upon a group of relative strangers whose presence in our lives is [...]

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Not All Roads Lead to Rome

It is not uncommon for me to receive copies of new books fresh off the presses in the hopes that CBC will promote them through our book review section or promote them as resources to our audience. I was happy to receive a copy of Human Embryo Adoption: Biotechnology, Marriage and the Right to Life, [...]

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This is Huxley’s Brave New World

This video has really struck a chord. We've received a number of notes on how it has helped people in thinking about (and communicating about) reproductive technologies.

This summer CBC founder and president Jennifer Lahl was interviewed for a documentary on reproductive technologies for German TV. Jennifer's segment, aptly titled "This is Huxley's Brave New World," is available online (the interview is in English with German subtitles).

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Eggsploitation is Now an E-Book

We've made the important message of our award-winning film available in another medium. We have combined the transcript of the film with several other related resources into a new e-book, now available at Amazon for reading on all of Amazon's Kindle devices and apps.
Check out the book, post a review on Amazon, let us know what you think.