Tag Archives: February

New map pinpoints Lyme disease risk areas

Posted on August 4, 2012 by kwc

Source: USA Today CONCORD, N.H. – Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease. The map, which … Continue reading →

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Human corpses harvested in multimillion-dollar trade

Posted on July 19, 2012 by kwc

Willson et al. theage.com.au A grisly trade in human body parts leaves relatives grieving and some recipients at risk of life-threatening disease. On February 24, Ukrainian authorities made an alarming discovery: bones and other human tissues crammed into coolers in … Continue reading →

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The latest goss on infanticide

Posted on June 28, 2012 by kwc

Michael Cook BioEdge A Washington Post blog has announced that the editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, is preparing a special issue on infanticide. This follows the world-wide controversy over the JME’s February 23 article, “After-birth abortion: … Continue reading →

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2045: A New Era for Humanity

Posted on June 12, 2012 by kwc

In February of 2012 the first Global Future 2045 Congress was held in Moscow. There, over 50 world leading scientists from multiple disciplines met to develop a strategy for the future development of humankind. One of the main goals of … Continue reading →

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Australian Clinic Uses IVF to Search out and Destroy Embryos With Cancer Gene

Posted on May 23, 2012 by kwc

LifeSiteNews MELBOURNE, February 16, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The eugenic practice of genetic testing to screen out the “unfit” has moved a step forward in Australia. Nathan Charles Runciman, a child born January 20, was conceived in a lab by in … Continue reading →

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Canadian bioethicist asks, why have children?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by kwc

Michael Cook BioEdge Is it good to have children? Most people would think so, but there is a range of views amongst utilitarian bioethicists. Rebecca Bennett, from the University of Manchester, believes that having children is just another irrational experience … Continue reading →

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Scientists To Soon Create Unlimited Supply of Humans In The Lab

Posted on April 23, 2012 by kwc

Kelley Bergman Prevent Disease The first human eggs grown from human stem cells could be fertilized with human sperm cells later this year, potentially adding one more peg in the ladder toward reproduction sans human interaction. In this case it … Continue reading →

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Dawn Of The Clone Age (BBC)

Posted on April 6, 2012 by kwc

BBC/EvolutionDocumentary Broadcast (1997) In February 1997, science fiction took a step closer to reality when a team of British scientists achieved what many believed to be impossible: cloning a single adult cell to create a whole new animal Dolly the … Continue reading →

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Possible causes of sudden onset OCD in kids broadened

Posted on March 24, 2012 by kwc

Jules Asher EurekAlert Criteria for a broadened syndrome of acute onset obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have been proposed by a National Institutes of Health scientist and her colleagues. The syndrome, Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS), includes children and teens that … Continue reading →

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‘Tis the season of fulminant fruitiness

Posted on March 17, 2012 by kwc

BioEdge Newspapers have their “silly season” of shock-horror absurdities in the slow news summer months. How about bioethics journals? When two very loopy articles surface in peer-reviewed journals in as many weeks, it’s clearly February and March. First there was … Continue reading →

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