An article has been published in the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) entitled “Bioethics Crisis Looms Unless NIH Changes Course, Critics Warn,” byline Richard Monastersky. Bioethics crisis? Apparently, practitioners believe we need more bioethicists to tell us what . . . . Continue Reading »
I love taking photographs, and I took some nice ones (if I don’t say so myself) on my recent cruise. Here is a sampling:Jet lagged at 4 in the morning, I had a mirrored elevator all to myself. Fun ensued.Dawn on the Baltic.An Estonian convent destroyed by Ivan the TerribleSt. Petersburg: the . . . . Continue Reading »
Bad news and good news—first the bad: A very close friend’s mother was diagnosed with colon cancer. But the very good news is that her disease was caught so early she won’t even need chemotherapy.Why? She had a colonoscopy! Had she not taken this life saving step, a few years down . . . . Continue Reading »
A big proof of principle advance has been announced on the IPSC front. Human brain cells have been reverted to an embryonic-like state with drugs—and without using any cancer-causing gene, reducing the need for virus vectors. From the story: A major advance in transforming one kind of cell . . . . Continue Reading »
I have reported on the Canadian futile care lawsuit involving Samuel Golubchuck here at SHS previously. For those who may not recall, Golubchuck is a terminally ill elderly patient being treated in a Winnipeg hospital’s ICU. Doctors want to refuse life-sustaining treatment. The . . . . Continue Reading »
The title of the article says it all. Daniel Allott— in an article from the American Spectator , now reproduced on the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page—highlights Barack Obama’s position on abortion by interviewing someone Obama would have rather seen dead: According to . . . . Continue Reading »
That seems to be what Forbes magazine is after in this interview with stem-cell scientist extraordinaire James Thomson. BioEdge highlights these excerpts from Thomson: ? “I do think there will be some niches where transplantation is important, but I think people are grossly underestimating . . . . Continue Reading »
Having previously noted the techno-/theo- logical dream of transcending death through science, I’m almost pleased to note that some futurists are now throwing cold water on the idea of The Singularity. (That’s the moment when AI surpasses human intelligence, Skynet becomes self-aware, . . . . Continue Reading »
I admire James Thomson, the scientist who first derived human embryonic stem cells and helped push the IPSC “lead into gold” breakthrough into human application. As most of the Science Establishment has outrageously hyped the potential of using ESCs for CURES! CURES! CURES!, Thomson has . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning, a two-page advertisement against same-sex marriage appeared in the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , and the Washington Times . Purchased by an organization called “Tradition, Family, Property,” the ad is text heavy, putting an argument about the orgins and results . . . . Continue Reading »
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