Filter my results
The US President's Council on Bioethics was an organization headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W…
OrganizationbioethicsAdvisory boardsStem CellsEmbryonic Stem CellsHwang Woo-suk, a geneticist in South Korea, claimed in Science magazine in 2004 and 2005 that he and a team of researchers had for the first time…
ContextbioethicsHuman cloning--Research--Law and legislationInformed consent (Medical law)Oocyte DonationIn 2010, the Catholic Church excommunicated Margaret McBride, a nun and ethics board member at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix,…
AbortionBirth ControlethicsChurchReproductive RightsIn 2007, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in London, UK, published Hybrids and Chimeras: A Report on the Findings of the Consultation…
LiteratureChimerismHuman reproductive technologyHuman CloningEmbryonic Stem CellsEstablished in tandem with Singapore's national Biomedical Sciences Initiatives, the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the…
OrganizationsSingaporeStem Cellsin vitroethicsIn 1991, the United Kingdom established the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) as a response to technologies that used human embryos…
OrganizationEmbryologyReproductive HealthHuman reproductive technologyWarnock, Mary, 1808-1900A PhD and medical doctor turned ethicist, Leon Kass calls himself an unlicensed humanist. Throughout his unique career he has sought to impact others…
PeoplebioethicsethicsReproductionBiographySince the 1950s, scientists have developed interspecies blastocysts in laboratory settings, but not until the 1990s did proposals emerge to engineer…
BlastocystDiseasesbioethicsTadpoleCell nuclei--TransplantationDavid Wildt is an animal reproductive biologist who directs the Conservation Biology Institute in Fort Royal, Virginia. In 1986, Wildt argued that…
ethicsFertilization in VitroEmbryo transplantationReproductive technologyEndangered SpeciesIn 2018, He Jiankui uploaded a series of videos to a YouTube channel titled “The He Lab” that detailed one of the first instances of a successful…
Literaturegene editingGenome EditingCRISPR (Genetics)CRISPR-associated protein 9