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Hateful politics infiltrate human genome editing debate in France

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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By Elliot Hosman Summary.  A campaign calling for a moratorium on using CRISPR in human embryos was launched by a prominent French organization fighting for narrow understandings of life and family. A recent campaign calling for a ban on “transgenic” human embryos was launched by one of France’s most prominent organizations fighting for “science”-backed “one-man-one-woman” …

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Nominees for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013: scientists, advocates, physicians, and the Pope

December 22, 2023 / By / 3 Comments

Nominations for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013 closed last night and I ended up with a remarkable list of 30 nominees. I have included a few sentences about each one below, often taking verbiage directly from the nominator. The online voting on these nominees will start soon. The top vote getters will move …

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Vatican’s doomed stem cell meeting still haunting them

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment

The Catholic Church, particularly the Vatican, has a bit of a split personality when it comes to stem cells and other “controversial issues” such as assisted reproduction and contraception. Officially, they oppose these things, but behind the scenes most everyday ordinary Catholics support them. This divide has become all the more apparent in the last …

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Vatican flunks Pepsi Challenge on Stem Cells?

February 1, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
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It’s a confusing time at the Vatican, which arguably has an international stem cell scandal of its own making on its hands. What the heck is going on? In an embarrassing move, they organized a stem cell conference for this year and then abruptly cancelled it, with the reason being that they had originally invited …

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Vatican in turmoil as it kills its upcoming stem cell conference

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments

The Vatican has reportedly killed its planned upcoming stem cell conference. What’s the scoop? Last year the Vatican had an invitation only stem cell conference at which embryonic stem cell researchers, who are presumably going to Hell, and discussion of embryonic stem cell research were banned. I did a number of posts on this 2011 …

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Vatican Stem Cell Meeting 2.0: from stem cells to prison cells to hell?

February 1, 2021 / By / 7 Comments
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We have another Vatican stem cell meeting coming up this spring. This meeting raises some extremely important questions and complex issues at the interface of science, religion, philosophy and ethics. From the perspective of scientists, an important issue is whether (assuming one is invited) to attend such a meeting and if one does attend, is …

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