Articles in the Category: Bioethics
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Bioethics, Biofuels, Biology, Diseases, Energy, Featured Articles, Genomics, Health and Medicine, New Species, SciClips on 09 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Synthetic Biology Takes on a Life of Its Own

Synthetic Biology Takes on a Life of Its Own
A Yeast Cell with Synthetic Genes, courtesy of Dr. Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School Life is often stranger than fiction. But the direction that biology is heading, synthetic life could be stranger than science fiction. The emerging field of synthetic biology is moving closer and closer to creating...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Bioethics, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, SciClips, The Brain on 03 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Animal Research Under Fire

Animal Research Under Fire
Scientists who do research on animals are being harassed, having their test subjects stolen, their families threatened, homes flooded and cars bombed. Even administrators who aren’t doing direct animal research are being targeted by extreme animal activists. The first arrests under the Animal...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Anthropology, Bioethics, Video on 02 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Darwin Year Begins with a Big Birthday

Darwin Year Begins with a Big Birthday
2009 is Darwin year, the bicentenary of the British naturalist’s birth, and 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work “The Origin of Species.” An exhibition has opened in London’s Museum of Natural History. The major milestone was to have begun the Year of Evolution...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Bioethics, Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Podcast, RawAudio on 08 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

Personlized Genome: A Discussion with Leading Minds

Personlized Genome: A Discussion with Leading Minds
Cells from children with genetic disease Progeria, photo by Brian C. Capell, NHGRI Some of the top scientific minds met at University of Washington last spring. Their purpose–to discuss the future of personal genomics. They met on the eve of the passage of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Bioethics, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Podcast, SciClips, Video on 01 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Animal Human Hybrid Okayed For Research

British scientists now have permission to create human-cow hybrid embryos to further stem cell research of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Protests began last fall leading up to the decision on January 17. Many are opposed to the crossing of the line between animals and people....
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Bioethics, Health and Medicine, Podcast, SciClips on 11 26th, 2007 | No Comments

Is the stem cell war over?

Is the stem cell war over?
Dr. James Thomson, photo by Jeff Miller “The induced cells do all the things embryonic stem cells do. It’s going to completely change the field,” says Dr. James Thomson, professor of anatomy at University of Wisconsin and the scientist who first isolated human embryonic stem cell lines in 1998....
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Bioethics, Health and Medicine, Video on 11 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment

New cloning controversy–this time in Oregon

Watch CBS Videos Online Scientists in Oregon have successfully cloned embryos from a rhesus monkey, sparking new ethical questions regarding stem cell research.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Bioethics, Biology, Diseases, Endangered Species, Global Warming, Podcast, SciClips on 06 29th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Bad Buzz

Bad Buzz
What’s killing all the honey bees? No one knows for sure. But a lot of different people are pointing at more than one culprit. Colony Collapse Disorder is the newly-minted term for bees abandoning their hives when they go out to pollinate fruit and vegetable crops . Even the Secretary of Agriculture...
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