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The Democrats running for the presidential nomination got together in Iowa Tuesday for another debate (this time it was on the radio). We've pulled highlights from the transcript that might be of interest here at our little intersection of the...
Read Speed reading the December 4 Democratic debate (Links)
In his December column Glenn is thinking about how we'll look at visual enhancements: Picture-perfect vision, with lovely dark pupils and irises of any color you want. Who wouldn't want that? Every person who wears glasses or contact lenses, or...
Read Glenn McGee in The Scientist: My Eye's On You (Links)
By James Fossett The White House, Charles Krauthammer, Wesley J. Smith and other Bush Administration apologists have been working hard the last few days to spin the announcement of the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC?s) as a scientific...
Read Bush and iPS cells: another "Mission Accomplished"? (Links)
Here are the most popular Bioethics News items from last week based on average clicks per day: 1. Japan looks to drop a few pounds (NYT) A law that recently took effect there requires local governments and companies to measure...
Read The 5 most popular Bioethics News stories from the week of June 9 (Links)
If it is, and you live in the Seattle area, there was some very exciting news last week. The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute would like to trade that two grand for the time and inconvenience of having malaria-carrying mosquitos...
Read Is being infected with malaria worth $2000? (Links)
Many have hailed the passage of the Genetic Information Nondescrimination Act as a major policy advance. And while there are certainly people who will benefit from the protections included in the law, Emory's Ani B. Satz argues in the Atlanta...
Read Unintended consequences from GINA? (Links)
Over at MSNBC, Art writes that he's not so sure that Pistorious should be allowed to compete in the Olympics: Should anyone who must run on prosthetic legs be allowed to compete in the Olympics or other sporting events? Oscar...
Read Art Caplan on Oscar Pistorious, the double amputee sprinter (Links)
You couldn't make a story like this up. Lou Hawthorne, the guy who was previously involved with an operation called Genetic Savings and Clone (that's him on the right with cloned dogs), teams up with Hwang Wook Suk -- the...
Read Woof! (Links)
By Ricki Lewis If TV?s Dr. House, diagnostician extraordinaire, is ever truly stumped, he can refer his patient to the National Institutes of Health?s new "Undiagnosed Diseases Program." Health care providers will refer patients whose symptoms do not fit any...
Read NIH recognizes undiagnosed diseases (Links)
The UK's parliament is continuing to move forward on the country's Human Embryology and Fertilisation Bill. In a piece this past weekend in The Observer, the British PM argued for a legal framework that would allow for the creation of...
Read Gordon Brown on animal-human embryos (Links)
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