Category Archives: Embryonic Stem Cells
‘The Stem Cell Debates: Lessons for Science and Politics’
By Paul Stark An excellent new report, “The Stem Cell Debates: Lessons for Science and Politics,” is published in the Winter 2012 edition of The New Atlantis. It is authored by the Witherspoon Council on Ethics and the Integrity of
Cry Me a River California Institute for Regenerative Medicine!
By Wesley J. Smith Wesley J. Smith The sense of entitlement of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine [CIRM] and its supporters would choke a cow. California is about to run out of cash!–and its supporters worry that it might
Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad Stem Cell News!
By Wesley J. Smith Hype over embryonic stem cell research has been maddening. The media bias, extreme. And many in elected office, intent on using the sector as a special interest source of campaign funds–and believing the cures meme–have been
Questionable Publication of Embryonic Stem Cell Results
By David Prentice Turning a blind eye toward both good science and good ethics, the embryonic stem cell and cloning company, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), has published a very preliminary online report regarding their first two patients injected with embryonic
NIH Approves More Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
By David Prentice National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins has approved four more human embryonic stem cell lines as eligible for federal taxpayer funding. The latest approval raises the total number of human embryonic stem cell lines at
Christmas Present from NIH Director Collins: More Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Approved
By David Prentice Just in time for Christmas, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins has approved still more human embryonic stem cell lines (hESC lines) for taxpayer funding. Today’s NIH approval brings the total number of human embryonic stem
Keeping the Embryonic Stem Cell Hype Alive by Creating a False Impression
By Wesley J. Smith This is unbelievable–except it isn’t: A front page story in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, headlined “Keeping Hope Alive,” purportedly concerns local young woman named Katie Sharify, who was the last patient to receive Geron’s now defunct
The University of Minnesota should take an ethics class
By Paul Stark The University of Minnesota is set to offer a new undergraduate course dealing exclusively with stem cells. Although it will be a science class, one part will be about stem cell history and probably touch on the
Now, if the University’s Scientists will only take the same course!
By Dave Andrusko My wife and I are from Minnesota and both attended the University of Minnesota. As a graduate student I wrote for the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper. Therefore, even if both the University and the Daily did
Reason Should Compel Us to Reject Embryo-Killing Research, Exploitation of aborted babies
By Luis Zaffirini A while back Don Reed, writing for the Huffington Post, argued against a pro-life bill in the Wisconsin Assembly that would prohibit the sale or use of body parts of aborted unborn babies for research purposes. [1]