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Vatican toughens stance on embryo research
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.nature.com)
The Roman Catholic Church has reaffirmed its opposition to embryonic stem cell research in a document that updates its twenty-year-old position on biomedical research and reproductive medicine.
The most significant change is that the Church rejects the idea that scientists who work with tissues derived from stem cells or fetuses are blameless so long as they had no part in the creation of the cell line or tissue sample 
Testicles could provide "ethical" stem cells
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.newscientist.com)
This article provides more information about last week's announcement that researchers have found a form of adult stem cells that appear to be as versatile as embryonic cells ...in men's testicles.
A team out of the University of Tubingen in Germany managed to convert spermatagonial cells into skin, gut structures, cartilage, bone, muscle, and neurons, quite an accomplishment. Some of their colleagues are enthusiastic. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts (U.S
Physicians practicing assisted suicide are asked to better screen patients for depression
jerry submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.reuters.com)
This article is particularly concerned with Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which requires physicians who suspect that a patient requesting help in ending his or her live might be suffering from clinical depression to have said patient evaluated by a mental health professional. However, the proportion of such patients who actually are evaluated has dropped and continues to drop.
Last year, forty-six patients died by physician-assisted suicide in Oregon. None of them were evaluated to see if depression had affected their judgment.
Stem cells from testicles offer an alternative to embryos
jerry submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (ap.google.com)
Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field. The downside? Because of their source, these cells could only be used for regenerative medicine in male patients, not in female ones.
The study involved twenty-two samples from men aged seventeen to eighty-one. All of them men were undergoing treatments for other reasons
Retinal transplants bear threefold fruit
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nature.com)
A formerly clinically blind woman's vision improved from 20/800 to 20/160--from one-fortieth of ordinary vision to one-eighth--after receiving donated retina. Six months after the operation, the started noticing the pendulum in her grandfather clock. For years, she found that she could read large-print books and emails and returned to her hobbies, knitting and sewing. Now, six years after her operation, her vision is fading, but it is still better than it was before the operation
When the past catches up with the present
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nature.com)
Oversight committees face tough decisions after an analysis questions whether certain cell lines meet standards of informed consent. If not, then the number of stem cell lines that U.S. scientists may study with federal funding may drop from twenty-one to sixteen.
Consent issues restrict stem-cell use and research
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nature.com)
Some researchers in Stanford University are told that around one-quarter of the human embryonic stem-cell lines eligible for U.S. government funding are now off-limits because of ethical concerns. The university is concerned that some of the women who donated the embyros that were used to generate the line might not have been fully informed of how they would be used.
The consent forms that the women signed were retrieved and it was found that none of them met Standford's guidelines exactly and some of them were way off the mark
Nature takes a look at in-vitro fertilization's past, present and future
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.nature.com)
This article is a comprehensive look at the past and future of artificial babymaking. It covers IVF, the possible use of iPS to make gametes. It covers ethics, public relations, and economics...
The part that I like best? IVF has "gone as far as it can" with regards to what it can do, so the next focus is on making it cheaper. The article discusses the woman in a developing country who, on top of her own wishes for a family, faces discrimination for her infertility
Stem cell researchers face down stem cell tourism
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.nature.com)
"Stem cell tourism," in which people travel thousands of miles and pay thousands of dollars to receive unregulated care, is nothing new. Now, with more stem cell applications being pushed toward clinical trials, the international research community is stepping up.
Although some of the patients report positive results, the fact that they cannot describe their treatments in detail--or produce verifiable medical records--severely limits the research value (though not the human value) of their cases
jerry submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.bmj.com)
Because there are challenging debates between those who argue that all research involving embryonic stem cells is immoral and those who see immense medical potential in this area of research, I have decided to include this article.
This study found that medical need dictates that the origin of human individuality must be defined with similar pragmatic precision. So a cell cannot have a soul.
Sue Wu submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
A plan to hold a presidential debate on science and technology issues in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, next week has failed. Now organizers hope to stage the event on May 9 in Oregon. But with candidates careful to avoid missteps, that plan faces tough odds.
Part human, part cow embryos made in UK
Sue Wu submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.telegraph.co.uk)
This is not a joke from April Fool's Day; it's real!
But it seems to come with some ethical problems.
Scientists at Newcastle University have created Britain’s first human-animal hybrid embryos for research by transferring the DNA from a human cell into a cow’s egg whose nucleus had been removed, it emerged on Tuesday night.
Putting Immunity in a Test Tube
jane2007 submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.time.com)
To streamline vaccine research and hasten the eradication of global killers, such as AIDS, VaxDesign company has created a simulated human immune system, called the Modular Immune in Vitro Construct (MIMIC for short). The dime-sized immune systems can predict how humans will respond to new vaccines.
Ethical treatment of whole genome research participants
Sue Wu submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.huliq.com)
Recent technological developments have made it possible for scientists to sequence an entire human genome, but these advances may be a mixed blessing.
When Is Sedation Really Euthanasia?
jane2007 submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.time.com)
Terminal sedation is the decision to keep dying patients, who cannot be made comfortable in any other way, unconscious until they die. But when is this the same as euthanasia?
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