Gaps in the New Human Embryo Research Guidelines
by Kevin Wilger, MS Earlier this year, the Internatio...
November 3, 2021
Stem Cell Bioethics vs. Disability Rights
by A. Rahman Ford, JD, PhD There can be no question that current FDA regulations regarding the use of one’s own stem cel...
June 18, 2021
Rise in Chinese Research Raises Call for Updated Human Subjects Protections
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Move over United States, China is the new research powerhouse. In the last few months, announcem...
February 12, 2019
Sunset on the RAC: When is it time to end special oversight of an emerging biotechnology?
by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Anna C. Mastroianni, J.D., M.P.H. National Institutes of Health Director (NIH) Fra...
October 16, 2018
Dear Mr. President: It’s Time for Your Bioethics Commission
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. Last week, seven Democratic members of the U.S. House Representatives sent a letter to the White...
May 23, 2017
Getting An Earful
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In the book (and film) Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, dinosaur DNA from in insects that bit ...
June 6, 2014
Transferring Morality to Human–Nonhuman Chimeras
Abstract Human–nonhuman chimeras have been the focus of ethical controversies for more than a decade, yet some related i...
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Faster Than the Speed of Thought
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. In the 1983 comedic film, The Man with Two Brains,” Steve Martin’s character falls in love with ...
August 30, 2013
Happy Stem Cell [Awareness] Day!
There is a day for virtually everything these days. Forget the old school Valentine’s and Sweetest Day, or even Ad...
October 5, 2011
Stem Cells and Baseball
When it came to light that New York Yankees pitcher Bartolo Colon had received autologous stem cell therapy from a clini...
June 2, 2011
Glenn McGee Was Right: It was Leon Kass’ “Decision Point”
For those of you who will not be reading former President George W. Bush’s autobiography, Decision Points (I am am...
November 10, 2010
McGee: Back on the Embryonic Stem Cell Merry-Go-Round, But Going In A New Direction
On the Bioethics Channel, Dr. Glenn McGee, the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics,...
September 1, 2010