Bioethics

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Bioethics

Lethal genetic testing

Two news about genetic testing: bad and very, very bad. And surely not the last…

14.02.2011
Bioethics

Rehabilitate eugenics?

Thanks to the efforts of the Nazis, the reputation of eugenics has been so tarnished that the word itself continues to be abusive. Meanwhile, this science could save people from disease, suffering, and even death itself...

20.12.2010
Bioethics

Save the embryo – kill the man!

The draft law "On Biomedical Cell Technologies" provides for a ban on the use of "laboratory embryo plantations" in which embryos are "disassembled into cells." Critics consider the project to be very incomplete.

15.12.2010
Bioethics

The younger sister of genetics

The exhibition "The Younger Sister of Genetics" (State Darwin Museum, November 15 – December 20, 2010) is dedicated to eugenics – the science of improving the human race.

10.11.2010
Bioethics

Buy a peaceful death!

An advertising campaign to legalize euthanasia will begin in Australia.

10.09.2010
Bioethics

Embryonic stem cells: there is a higher court...

The Obama administration has challenged the ban on government funding for embryonic stem cell research. If the judge refuses to reverse his decision, the US administration will appeal to the Washington Court of Appeals.

01.09.2010
Bioethics

Defenders of the rights of embryos: expert comment

Does it make sense to discuss the possibility of using 50-100 blastocyst cells for the benefit of science and in the name of a chance to cure many patients, which should be destroyed, while abortion of a three-month-old fetus is legally allowed in many countries?

27.08.2010
Bioethics

Embryonic stem cells were again blocked from oxygen

The Alliance Defense Fund, a public organization dedicated to protecting the interests of adherents of various Christian denominations, filed a lawsuit to cancel state funding for embryonic stem cell research.

24.08.2010
Bioethics

Quality of life and quality of death

By analogy with the well-established term "quality of life", a group of scientists conducted a study of the "quality of death". Russia, unfortunately, ranks 35th in the list of 40 countries with the most favorable conditions for the elderly and dying.

16.07.2010
Bioethics

The Indian DNA Case

The Havasupai Indians sued the scientists for $700,000 because they studied their DNA not only in search of the causes of predisposition to diabetes, as they were going to, but analyzed the DNA and the origin of Havasupai, and their propensity to other diseases.

05.05.2010
Bioethics

Bioethics and Medicine: More questions than answers

Organ transplantation, artificial insemination, genetic engineering, human cloning, the use of embryos, stem cell treatment and much more – is everything that is possible in medicine acceptable from the standpoint of bioethics?

28.04.2010
Bioethics

Medical Ethics and Bioethics: between Science and Morality

The round table of Russian and French scientists "Medical ethics and bioethics: between science and morality" at the RIA Novosti International Press Center can be seen live. The beginning is on April 22 at 18.30.

13.04.2010
Bioethics

TV Series and Bioethics

Bioethicists have counted 179 cases of violations of medical ethics in 11 different areas in the films of the second season of the TV series "Dr. House" and "Anatomy of Passion".

29.03.2010
Bioethics

Execution cannot be cloned

The State Duma continues to discuss a bill extending the ban on human cloning in Russia.

04.03.2010
Bioethics

Transplantology in law

The order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation "On approval of the Procedure for providing medical care by organ transplantation" is commented by the director of the Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Sergey Gauthier.

24.11.2009
Bioethics

Transplantology is illegal

Among the "non–working" articles in our criminal legislation is Article 120 - "Coercion to the removal of human organs or tissues for transplantation."

24.11.2009