Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Bioethics/Biotech
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Radio New Zealand’s National Radio programme Ideas (part of Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw) was a discussion on human embryo research in New Zealand, looking forward to the discussion over the next few months in NZ over policy. Featured a panel discussion including a good friend on mine, Graham O’Brien, and touched on a range…
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Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (2006 Media Release, University of Otago, New Zealand): Choosing Genes for Future Children: Regulating Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, is the first major report from the three-year multidisciplinary project which draws together a team of New Zealand and international researchers in Law, Bioethics, Science, MÄori and Paediatrics to examine whether, how and to what…
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The NZ Bioethics Council (Toi te Taiao) has just launched an awareness programme about the use of human embryos in research. Discussion material is available for download and by post, as well as online discussion at their web site. This awareness campaign is timed to coincide with the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART)…
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Last month Metanexus held their annual science and religion conference on the theme of “Continuity and Change“. Abstracts and full papers from the conference are available online from the web site. One paper I look forward to reading is More than Human: Religion, Bioethics, and the Transhuman Prospect by Ronald Cole-Turner. If I look sideways…
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A short, but interesting, interview (text and video) with Francis Collins (Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health and Author, THE LANGUAGE OF GOD) at Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PROFILE . DR. FRANCIS COLLINS . July 21, 2006 | PBS.
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Recent Science and Theology News article looking at Jewish interaction with reproductive technologies. See Science & Theology News – Be fruitful and multiply.
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Article on genetic determinism – Science & Theology News – The Daily Dose: Genes are my co-pilots points to another at That Wild Streak? Maybe It Runs in the Family – New York Times. Reminds me of this from a paper I read recently. Hansen, Bart, and Paul Schotsmans. “Cloning: The Human as Created Co-Creator?”…
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Links and comments on the use of performance enhancing drugs used by children and teenagers in education. See Better Humans : Simon : The kids are alright with smart drugs
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Science and Theology New have been running articles recently about biotechnology and its interaction with religion. There are a couple of interesting ones I’ve seen in the print edition that haven’t made it on to the web site yet, but this one is there now. Science & Theology News – God’s genetically modified image
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Catching up on some podcasts today I listened to this one from ABC’s The Spirit of Things. Some good thought provoking material, which intersects with the thesis chapter I’m editing at the moment (created co-creator stuff). See The Spirit of Things – 4 June 2006 – Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston