Bioethics in the News
STEM CELL PROCESS A FLASH IN THE PAN?
(Science) A Japanese team announcedFriday in Tokyo that it has been unable to reproduce a new, astoundingly simpleway of generating pluripotent stem cells, despite working directly with thelead author on the Nature papersreporting the breakthrough - Read More
RUNNING EBOLACLINIC IN SIERRA LEONE ABOUT CONTAINMENT, CHLORINE
(Wired)Treating patients with the Ebola takes doctors, drugs, and a whole lot of bleach. Read More
BABIES IN YOUR30S? DON’T WORRY, YOUR GREAT-GRANDMA DID IT TOO
(MedicalXpress) Technologies such as IVF, eggdonation and egg freezing are allowing women beat the tyranny of their ownbiology. Read More
DOUBLE AMPUTEEGIVEN WORLD’S FIRST MIND-CONTROLLED ARMS
(TheTelegraph) A US man has made history by becoming the first double amputee tocontrol two shoulder-level prosthetic arms with his mind. Read More
TOP ASSISTEDREPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY LITERATURE FROM 2014
(Medscape) Thought singleton pregnanciesare safest, when a single embryo is transferred electively, the efficacy willlikely not be the highest. Read More
11TH SIERRALEONEAN DOCTOR DIES FROM EBOLA
(MedicalXpress) One of Sierra Leone’s most senior physicians died Thursday from Ebola,the 11th doctor in the country to succumb to the disease. Ebola has killed morethan 350 health workers in West Africa. Read More
EUROPEAN COURTCLEARS WAY FOR STEM-CELL PATENTS
(Nature)Europe’s highest court ruled that human embryonic stem cells made fromunfertilized eggs can be patented because they are deemed to lack the potentialto turn into a human being. Read More