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NIH-funded embryonic stem cell research is now ALMOST legal
I really, really don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but you still can’t get federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in the US. But with President Obama signing an execut… more →
Human Enhancement and Biopolitics
NIH-funded embryonic stem cell research is now ALMOST legal
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Joshua wrote 8 months ago: I really, really don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but you still can’t get fe … more →
Foetal stem cells cause tumours: Irrelevant and obvious
Joshua wrote 9 months ago: Too many people overreacting about a recently released story of a boy developing tumours subsequent … more →
Mice reject human embryonic cells - so what?
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine found that mice mounted an immune response aft … more →
GM Human Embryo? Nope, that doesn't count!
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Those at the London Times are conveniently twisting the truth to claim that scientists have created … more →
What pro-lifers don't realise about induced pluripotent stem cells
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: It is often claimed by the pro-lifer crowd that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are a great w … more →
Positive feedback loops in bioethics
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: There are some situations in bioethics were people use a prior action has justification for further … more →
German Parliament changes stem cell law
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: An update to the story I blogged about a couple of months ago regarding proposed changes to Germany … more →
Comments on Britain's cybrid 'part human, part cow' embryos
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Researchers at the University of Newcastle have announced that they created human-animal hybrids! Wh … more →
How to determine the status of human embryos
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: This bioethics twist on the classical ‘fat-man trolley problem‘ of moral philosophy can … more →
Therapeutic cloning can also cure!
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Researchers have used therapeutic cloning to cure Parkinson’s disease in mice. This is a landm … more →
Only embryonic stem cells secrete cancer-busting protein
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Researchers at Northwestern University in the USA have found that human embryonic stem cells secrete … more →
How can one be pro-sex AND pro-life?
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: If sex destroys embryos, how can one be a pro-lifer and yet still seek to conceive naturally? John H … more →
Embryonic stem cells CAN cure!
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Another argument, the one that says no therapies have ever come from embryonic stem cells, has died … more →
Two US states change legal wording around 'therapeutic cloning'
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Joshua wrote 1 year ago: Two American states, Nebraska and Missouri, have recently seen changes to cloning legislature or pro … more →
Leon Kass seeks to take cloning out, and embryo research with it.
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: I’ve noticed Leon Kass, the conservative bioethicist who headed up the US President’s Co … more →
Don't compromise. We need embryo research.
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: In some of the recent news articles I have read have mentioned the recent research deriving pluripot … more →
Death and politics
Joshua wrote 1 year ago: After watching the recent Colbert Report, featuring Aubrey De Grey, my attention was drawn to the ag … more →
