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Bioethics
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Univ. of Nebraska Regents Consider Resolution to Limit Stem Cell Research to Cell Lines Approved by Pres. G.W. Bush
Omaha World-Herald: Right Now: Stem cell meeting, by Jeffrey Robb: LINCOLN -- Omaha.com is providing live online updates as the Universityof Nebraska regents' decide whether to restrict embryonic stem cellresearch.Four…
The Faculty Lounge
Selecting for Sex: US entrepreneurship in the baby market
Via Al Roth: Choosing sex of children: repugnant in Britain but not in U.S. The Times reports: US clinic offers British couples the chance to choose the sex of their…
Texas Bar Blog
Random Profile – Thomas W. George, Austin
For Random Profiles, we randomly pick one of our 80,000-plus attorneys, call them, and do a Q&A. We've found that every Texas lawyer has an interesting story. Will yours be…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
President Obama Approves New Guidelines on Stem Cell Research
NY Times/Reuters (7/30): Obama Enacts New U.S. Stem Cell Research Rules:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama directed federal agencies on Thursday to enact new rules governing federally funded research…
The Right Coast
I have my say on World have your say Tom Smith
I got my chance to opine for 30 seconds this morning on the BBC's talk show World Have Your Say. I am "this blogger" who disagrees with Michael Sandell, I…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Substitute for Embryonic Stem Cells Shows Promise
ScienceNow: Embryonic Stem Cell Substitute Passes Acid Test, by Gretchen Vogel: Scientists have for the first time demonstrated that a possiblealternative to controversial embryonic stem (ES) cells shares one oftheir…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Richard Storrow on Therapeutic Reproduction
Richard Storrow (CUNY Law School) has posted Therapeutic Reproduction and Human Dignity on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Bioethicistshave long looked to literature for insight into the difficult questionsthat arise…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NIH Issues Draft Guidelines for Stem Cell Research
Wash. Post: Stem Cell Sense: NIH research guidelines avoid some moral minefields: By limiting federal funding to research on stem cells derived from embryos that were created for reproductive purposes and…
Technology Law Source
Nanotechnology: Considering the Complex Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues with the Parameters of Human Performance
"Nanotechnology: Considering the Complex Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues with the Parameters of Human Performance", by Linda MacDonald and Jeanann S. Boyce and published in Nanoethics 2: 265-275 (2008) (available…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Symposium on Assisted Reproduction, Race, Class, and Sexuality
The University of Minnesota Law & Inequality journal will host a symposium on April 10, 2009, on "Contested Contours in Assisted Reproduction: Interrogating Law, Race, Class & Sex": The controversial…