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Adult Stem Cells Accidentally Cure AIDs?
A German scientist may have stumbled onto cure for one of this planet's most deadly diseases. An AIDs patient was given a bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia, and surprisingly, doctors believe it may have cured his AIDs affliction, as well. Click here to read the full story.
An Overview to Reproductive Technologies
The inability to have a child is a true burden. Would-be parents often ask both God and themselves why their innate desire to have children continues to...
Cloning
Dolly the sheep brought the realities of cloning into the mainstream society. Today the effects of cloning on a society are at the center of many ethical debates. Yet what is cloning? Cloning is the p...
Ectogenesis
Ectogenesis, as it applies to persons, is the creation and/or continuation of human life outside the human uterus. It can refer to the complete artificial creation of human life (as in Brave New Worl...
Chimeras
Chimeras are transgenic organisms that contain two or more different populations from genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes. Chimeras can involve the mixing of species from a ...
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence: the science and engineering of making intelligent machines or technologies.
The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was coined by John McCarthy in 1956 as "the science and engine...
Robotics-Cybernetics
From the movies Terminator to Blade Runner, images of cyborgs have captivated many audiences. Yet now, what once was seen as science fiction is apart of everyday scientific explorations. The term cy...
Glow in the Dark . . . Humans
"A spokesman for the National Institutes of Health said the Cornell work would not be classified as gene therapy in need of federal review, because a test-tube embryo is not considered a person under ...
Stem cells and Personhood
What are stem cells anyway?
Stem cells, put simply, are the building blocks of life. When you were conceived, your body was entirely made up of stem cells. Stem cells can replicate indefinitely, and ca...
Human Cloning: The Need for a Comprehensive Ban
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity Position Paper
Human cloning is the creation of a human being whose genetic make-up is nearly identical 1 to that of a currently or previously existing ...
Aging and the End of Life
Assisted suicide and euthanasia is a confusing subject. However, this subject will greatly affect future generations as we continue the slide down the slippery slope toward declaring several classes o...
The Science of Stem Cell Research
The concept of establishing legal Personhood for all humans from fertilization to natural death would create the legal protection needed to stop the experimentation on humans at the embryonic level. E...
Personhood and the Pre-born
Whitepapers & Links - Transhumanism
Posthumanism is not a formal religion, but rather, it is driven by a series of underlying religious beliefs. Posthumanists, for example, believe that finite and temporal limits of the human body place severe constraints upon the human will.
"We in the Eugenics movement are not interested in competing against Adolph Hitler or Karl Marx for some minuscule little 1,000 year Reich. We are interested in competing with Jesus Christ and Buddha for the destiny of man."
Remaking Humans: The New Utopians Versus a Truly Human Future
The new technopians actually have a name for themselves: transhumanists. According to the World Transhumanist Association: "Transhumanism (as the term suggests) is a sort of humanism plus.
Another View of the Singularity Summit: Is the "Singularity" for Everyone?
Are we approaching technological changes that will merge biological and non-biological intelligence, fuse the man-machine relationship, and blur the lines between reality and virtual reality?
World Transhumanist Association
We support the development of and access to new technologies that enable everyone to enjoy better minds, better bodies and better lives.
Transhumanism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Democratic Transhumanism 2.0: Citizen Cyborg
"Let the ruling classes and Luddites tremble at a democratic transhumanist revolution. "
LifeNews.com
Christian Bioethics News
Resources & Links
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