December 2005

Science needs to do some Seoul Searching

Prof. Hwang was found to have secured no stem cells for his research by a Seoul National University investigation panel. Hwang’s claim to have cloned the first dog, Snuppy, have also been called into question. Last week he resigned as Professor at Seoul National University. The national hero is now being called the biggest liar. […]

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CBC 2005 Winners and Losers

Winners Proposition 71 Opponents: Our hats are off to a rag tag team of feminists, environmentalists, progressives, pro-choice and pro-life voices who have stopped Prop. 71 in its tracks. California biotech has yet to see any of the 3 billion dollars it was promised. A truly poignant and modern David and Goliath story.

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Embryo Stem Cell Map

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What’s love got to do with it?

Romanian women are supplying the U.K. with their eggs for infertile couples and now we hear that death row inmates in China are the suppliers of organs for Brits in need of an organ donation. While we may disagree on capital punishment as a means for ‘just desserts’ all of us should be seriously concerned […]

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Mary Shelley–You’ve come a long way baby!

It’s time to dust off your copy of Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein and read it again. And for those with a more academic literary taste, read Paul Ramsey’s Fabricated Man. Reports this am are that Dr. Craig Venter is at the head of a new project. “Work on the world’s first human-made species is well […]

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431 to 1 in the House of Representatives

You don’t see that kind of bipartisanship voting in Washington much these days, but when you do, it is time to stop and take notice! The senate passed it too! On Friday, while most of us were unaware, legislation was passed that would set up a National database for umbilical cord blood. “With the passage […]

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Wooed

(for nationalreview.com) Between March 2004 and the end of 2005, South Korean veterinarian Woo-Suk Hwang rose from relative obscurity to become the world’s most famous scientist. His rise to international renown began when he reported, in the March 12, 2004, edition of the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Science, to have created the first cloned human embryos […]

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A Fabricated Man

With all the controversy surrounding South Korean’s cloning star, Hwang Woo Suk, I am hopeful that concerns for the dignity and safety of human subjects will get a fair hearing. Hwang’s most recent troubles (causing him to spend a few days in the hospital because of exhaustion) are focused on allegations that his human embryo […]

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David vs. Goliath

Before the California election in November 2004, many likened the Proposition 71 battle to a David vs. Goliath smackdown. Goliath (Robert Klein and co.) had tons of money to launch a stealth campaign for ‘cures’ under the guise of human embryonic cloning research. David (a rag tag team of pro-lifers and pro-choicers) had zero stones […]

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A View to a Kill

(from Nationalreview.com) According to recent showbiz news, jailed murderer Jack Kevorkian may soon be the subject of a laudatory movie biopic. (No, it is not intended as a horror movie.) Unfortunately, this seems to be a serious project. The announced director is Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. The screenwriter is Barbara Turner (Pollock). Stars […]

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The Silent Bias

(for weeklystandard.com) MUCH OF THE CURRENT DEBATE over what is generally known as therapeutic cloning–that is, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning conducted for research purposes rather than reproduction–centers on the nature of the thing that is created by the cloning process. Until recently, this issue wasn’t controversial: Cloning, it was widely agreed, created a […]

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Eggs? We don’t need no stinking eggs!

Must see TV. View this video clip and see the amazing ethical research moving forward using umbilical cord blood stem cells. South Korea’s ethical research moves forward amidst the cloud of abuses of female egg donors. I’ll say it again, the advances in regenerative medicine, using adult/cord blood stem cells are impressive. And research using […]

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