University of Northern Iowa
Posted in Cloning on Dec 28th, 2009
The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture – a motivational system based on heritable [...]
Posted in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology on Dec 27th, 2009
The Dutch health institute RIVM has stopped the distribution of a batch of Pfizer’s Prevnar childhood vaccine following the death of three babies shortly after being vaccinated.The vaccine has been labeled ‘do not use’ and and new supplies have been made available to doctors.The exact cause of the death of the infants is not yet [...]
Posted in Animal Biotechnology on Dec 27th, 2009
The Cancer Prevention Coalition is pleased to announce that the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association has voted to oppose the continued sale and use of genetically engineered hormonal rBGH milk, and also meat adulterated with sex hormones. This decision is based on long-standing scientific and public policy information developed and published by [...]
