Vatican hardens opposition to stem cell research

The Vatican hardened its opposition Friday to using embryos for stem cell research, cloning and in-vitro fertilization. But in a major new document on bioethics, it showed flexibility on some forms of gene therapy and left open questions surrounding embryo adoption.

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Pope Defends Bioethics Teaching

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday defended the Vatican's right to speak out on bioethics, including its opposition to artificial procreation methods and embryonic stem cell research.

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Warnings that Democrats plan to scrap pro-life Stupak amendment language in Senate

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Many physicians have serious and well-considered concerns about the morality of vital human organ transplantation, and about the fact that the general public has not been properly informed about what really happens when such organs are retrieved.

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Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, addresses the Phoenix Catholic Phsyicians' Guild about bioethics, especially concerning those children diagnosed with physical or mental disabilities.

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Molecular Biologist fired by George Bush wins Nobel Prize

Elizabeth Blackburn has won the Nobel Prize for medicine. She had been on Bush's Council on Bioethics from 2001 until she was fired in 2004. She supported human embryonic cell research, in opposition to the Bush Administration.

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Doctor Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel has been appointed to two key positions in the health care hierarchy.

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In an interview to be published in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she thought the landmark Roe v.

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Matthew Brzica and his wife hardly noticed when the hospital took a few drops of blood from each of their four newborn children for routine genetic testing.

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Here's a little-known fact: Under current law, it's possible to hold a patent on a piece of human DNA, otherwise known as a gene. More Articles

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President Bush had restricted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to cells derived from embryos that had already been destroyed (as of his speech of Aug. 9, 2001).

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The Bishop of Phoenix in Arizona has written a straight-talking column responding to President Barack Obama's executive order providing federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

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An uproar over the birth of octuplets was percolating Friday amid revelations the mother has six other kids and used fertility treatments to get pregnant again. The medical establishment opened an investigation into why so many embryos were implanted in Nadya Suleman, 33, during …

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In its most authoritative declaration on bio-ethics for more than 20 years, the Vatican yesterday reinforced its hostility to a wide range of techniques and treatments that have become available in recent decades.

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more voodoo science ? "Perhaps by means of injections and drugs and chemicals the population could be induced to bear whatever its scientific masters may decide to be for its good. too many servants for the masters ?

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Malthusian snobs pray for cure for overpopulation" by Brendan O'Neill (thefirstpost.co.uk) - Nov. 14, 2008.

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Just two days after Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan announced that the law will be amended to allow living organ donors to be compensated, the Bioethics Advisory Committee said women should be fairly reimbursed when they donate their eggs for research.

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Seen Robert Shapiro hawking LegalZoom.com? Well, according to the WSJ Health Blog on Thursday, soon the same kind of templates used to give you a quickie will or corporation could give you a cancer clinical trial.

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On Friday, Sergey Brin, one of the famous masterminds behind Google's takeover of the world, announced that he has one of the genetic mutations associated with Parkinson's.

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It turns out that no nicotine delivery device is good for you, even if it's electronic. The World Health Organization has said that so-called "electronic cigarettes" are not effective and may even be poisonous, as reported in US News.

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Wesley Smith reports that researchers are attempting to understand near death experiences by studying what happens to heart attack patients after the heart stops or brain waves cease.

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Anyone catch the piece "Double Helix Dept: Ptooey!" in the Talk of the Town section of the New Yorker (Sept 22, 2008)? 'Tis yet another take on 23andMe, the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company.

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So what's so dangerous about coming home and finding PCR on the counter? According to David Rejeski from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies in Wednesday's Boston Globe, making biology too accessible of a science can lead to ethical problems, risks to human health, and more.

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Who would have thought that one of the major ingredients in your breakfast cereal would be, of all things, fish oil?

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The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the FDA is considering changing food labeling for products that may contain allergens such as nuts, wheat, and others.

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Finally, both presidential candidates have answered questions about the hot science policy issues from the Science Debate 2008. As the NYT reports.

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