Dear friends, As I reflect on the work of the Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC) over these last 20 years, I am amazed at all that we have been able to accomplish because of your commitment to our shared human future. CBC...
Read More1. This Needs to be Read and Shared as Widely as Possible California oncologist and hematologist Dr. Philip Dreisbach writes in the Wall Street Journal as clearly and urgently as I have seen about the perils of physician...
Read More1. Priorities at the VA The department of veterans affairs this week released the preliminary results of a new study on suicide among veterans. “In 2014, the latest year available, more than 7,400 veterans took their own lives,...
Read More1. Gene Editing Summit Supports Human Embryo Research The just concluded International Summit on...
Read More1. India Bans Foreigners from Hiring Surrogate Mothers The Indian government delivered a huge win...
Read MoreHave you seen the #XmasListIn3Words meme going around around on social media? Here are a few...
Read MoreHuman cloning is here. After years of effort, scientists manufactured human life using the same...
Read MoreBuried deep in an encouraging story about another advance in turning skin cells into stem cells, we see more evidence of biotechnology’s ultimate human cloning goal.First, the good news. An acid bath may be able to replace...
Read MoreCan you believe a year has come and gone since I last told you what would happen, before it...
Read MoreIn California, a bill that would allow researchers to pay women for their eggs is currently on the Governor’s desk, awaiting his signature or veto. At the CBC we have been very busy, working to make the very real risks of...
Read MoreBack when California’s Proposition 71 was being pitched — which created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) — opponents warned that making human cloning a state constitutional right would...
Read MoreNearly two decades have passed since the birth of Dolly the sheep, a clone manufactured through a process known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). Since that time, the prospect of human cloning has been eagerly—or...
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