Posts Tagged ‘embryos’

Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos created during fertility are ‘children’ protected under state law

(FOX News) — The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos created during fertility treatments can be considered children under state law. The decision, issued in a pair of wrongful death cases brought by couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic, brought a rush of warnings from advocates who said […]

Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are ‘children’

Alabama’s Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are children under state law and subject to legislation dealing with the wrongful death of a minor, stating that it “applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location.” The court issued this majority decision in a lawsuit brought forth by a group of in vitro fertilization… […]

Lab–grown embryos and human–monkey hybrids: Medical marvels or ethical missteps?

In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World,” people aren’t born from a mother’s womb. Instead, embryos are grown in artificial wombs until they are brought into the world, a process called ectogenesis. In the novel, technicians in charge of the hatcheries manipulate the nutrients they give the fetuses to make the newborns fit the […]

Scientists Edit Embryos’ Genes to Study Early Human Development

Source: Reuters British scientists have used a genome editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas9 to knock out a gene in embryos just a few days old, testing the technique’s ability to decipher key gene functions in early human development. The researchers said their experiments, using a technology that is the subject of fierce […]

Huge backlash against gene editing of human embryos as scientists decry ethical quagmire of "designer babies"

(Natural News) For several years now, there has been a vigorous and ongoing debate in this country regarding the ethics of gene editing on human embryos. While many people argue that the practice will lead to incredible advancements in technology and could even one day save lives, others decry gene editing as an immoral procedure […]

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S. July 27th, 2017 Via: MIT Technology Review: The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, Technology Review has learned. The […]

Company Is Turning “Extra” Embryos Into Human Jewelry

Human embryos “left over” from IVF fertilization are now being used to create jewelry, shocking and angering many. The Australian company, Baby Bee Hummingbirds, is known for creating keepsakes out of things such as umbilical cords and breast-milk. The company’s founder, Amy McGlade said: “I don’t believe there is any other business in the world […]

‘No noble end’ can justify destroying human embryos – Pope Francis

“We know that no end, even a noble one like the expectation of a benefit for science, for other human beings or for society, can justify the destruction of human embryos,” the Pope said on Thursday at the Papal audience with families of those affected by Huntington’s disease. “I encourage you to carry out [experiments] […]

Emails show TPP ‘collusion’ between big banks & Obama Administration

Source: Common Dreams A series of emails released Friday show what activists describe as “collusion” between U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Wall Street executives to push for the passage the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The emails (pdf), obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the group Rootstrikers, which […]

Paedophile Prompted Evacuation After Attempting Suicide With Oven Bomb

A paedophile prompted a large-scale evacuation in Essex when he attempted to kill himself by ‘cooking’ a bomb in his oven to avoid prison. More than 300 residents were forced to flee their homes for eight hours after Ian Shingler called police to say he had explosives and was going to commit suicide. Around 100 […]

Paedophile Prompted Evacuation After Attempting Suicide With Oven Bomb

A paedophile prompted a large-scale evacuation in Essex when he attempted to kill himself by ‘cooking’ a bomb in his oven to avoid prison. More than 300 residents were forced to flee their homes for eight hours after Ian Shingler called police to say he had explosives and was going to commit suicide. Around 100 […]

Hungarian Top Economist: Civil War is Coming to Europe

From: youtube.com Zsolt Bayer, Hungarian journalist, publicist, and co-founder of Hungary’s currently ruling political party, and Dr. Lszl Bogr, former politician and leading economist, discuss the Cologne sexual assualts committed by migrants on New Year’s Eve, 2016. This short part of the 60-minute long television program that aired on Echo TV on […]

Hungarian Top Economist: Civil War is Coming to Europe

From: youtube.com Zsolt Bayer, Hungarian journalist, publicist, and co-founder of Hungary’s currently ruling political party, and Dr. Lszl Bogr, former politician and leading economist, discuss the Cologne sexual assualts committed by migrants on New Year’s Eve, 2016. This short part of the 60-minute long television program that aired on Echo TV on […]

Ex-ISIS Fighter Reveals Daesh Plans To Nuke 4 Major Cities

An ex-ISIS militant has come forward and said that the terrorist regime possess at least 4 nuclear weapons, located in 4 major cities around the world, ready to detonate. According to Sallah Abdeslam the ‘clash of civilisations’ is scheduled to begin in 2016. He says that in Germany alone there are 18,000 terrorist cells waiting to […]

Bread and circuses – Staging spectacles to keep the US police state in power

Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in […]

Private Browsing Microsoft Style

Private Browsing Microsoft Style February 1st, 2016 All browsing done with Edge in “InPrivate” mode is logged. haha It even flags the “InPrivate” visits in the log. Is anyone actually using Edge, besides security researchers attempting to see how screwed it is? Via: Kinja: […]

National Guard Bringing Water Door-to-Door In Contaminated Michigan

The Michigan National Guard arrived in Flint on Wednesday to help provide emergency relief to hundreds of thousands of people facing toxic tap water. Flint’s tap water became contaminated with too much lead after the city switched its water supply in 2014 to save money. As a water crisis emergency has been declared the National […]

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