February 2008

Another iPSC Breakthrough

When we announced the big iPSC breakthrough on November 20th, 2007 we have continued to see more and more promise AND progress with this ethical research. Remember, this is the research which takes and adult skin cell and then turns the stem cells back to an “embryonic” like state. No eggs needed.No embryos needed or [...]

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Open Your Eyes to the Bioethics Revolution

It’s clear that bioethical issues have seized the attention of hospitals and biotech corporations — anywhere organizational ethics committees gather. And universities — not just medical schools — hire bioethics specialists to teach; while politicians and government leaders battle over legislation that attempts to translate its lawful practices into our lives. Meanwhile, the media conveys [...]

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Silicon Wombs

You wouldn’t believe me if I told you this. So read it for yourself here. A few quotes to give you the flavor. “Trials of a “silicon womb” that holds test-tube embryos inside the womb to expose them to more natural conditions will shortly begin in the UK. Researchers say the new device may produce [...]

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What happens when sperm donation is no longer anonymous?

Finally some data coming out on this from the United Kingdom, which has moved to take the anonymity out of sperm and egg donation (there we go again with euphemisms). Now, it is the right of the child, created by egg or sperm donation, to find out who their biological parents are once they reach [...]

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Wanted: Someone to Play God

Nancy Gibbs over at Time Magazine has a good piece out on IVF. She says a lot of the things I’ve been saying and writing about for years. Like: Gibbs – “It’s a good thing that most doctors are principled professionals, since there is nothing to stop them from implanting 10 embryos in a woman [...]

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And Then They Died

More buzz about embryonic stem cell treatments in mice and diabetes proves that *yawn* all the millions of dollars (yours, mine and ours) poured into embryonic stem cell research is not even safe for human clinical trials. This report in the New York Times yesterday has a very misleading headline once you get past the [...]

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California Cloners Getting A Big Fat Raise?

A Press Release I just received: The California stem cell agency is proposing raising salary ranges for top employees a whopping 50 percent, an increase that is unjustified in the face of a state budget crisis, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today. The proposal, to be considered by the stem cell [...]

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Pushing Infanticide

Support for infanticide is becoming positively trendy. Where once support for killing babies born with birth defects was a fringe belief, it became respectable — even mainstream — after doctors from Groningen University Medical Center in the Netherlands admitted in 2004 that they euthanized dying and profoundly disabled babies under the terms of what has [...]

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One Baby At a Time

One of the many ways which today’s reproductive technologies are reckless, endangering mothers and babies, is implanting multiple embryos at a time. Of course, this methodology is purely pragmatic – put in as many as is “safe” and hope that some of the embryos “take” and if too many of them take, then selectively reduce [...]

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Another Attempt at Made to Order Pet Cloning

“A Californian dog-lover has agreed to pay $150,000 to have her dead pit bull recreated in the world’s first commercial pet cloning project. The dog, named Booger, died a year and a half ago but his owner kept part of his ear in cold storage and South Korean scientists will now attempt to create an [...]

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