by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. Researchers at Yale University recently reported an experiment in which they used an experimental chemical solution to create electrical activity in the cells of pig brains, brains obtained from a slaughterhouse four hours after the death of the animals from decapitation (NY Times ‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs, 4/17,19). These results led to all manner of comments in this story, many from bioethicists and in stories elsewhere. …
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Managing Anorexia Nervosa by Her Own Hand by September Williams, MD “You are only as sick as the secrets you keep.” It’s a saying used in a wide variety of mental health self-help communities. The phrase is also the apt tag line for Laura VanZee Taylor’s profoundly emotive feature length 2018 documentary film, I AM MARIS (IAM). Taylor along with producer Ariana Garfinkeland— most importantly— the film’s artist-writer-protagonist Maris Degener, document the perpetual state of recovery required to quell manifestations of mental illness.…
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#Bioethics News: Stanford University has cleared Stephen Quake, a bioengineering professor, of any wrongdoing in his interactions with a Chinese researcher who roiled the scientific world by creating the first gene-edited babies. https://t.co/hRyi2W50My
#Bioethics News: NYC health officials issued summonses to parents of three children Thursday for failing to have their children vaccinated against measles, a violation of the city’s emergency order mandating immunizations to control a surging outbreak.https://t.co/6dxvKCcOUv
#Bioethics News: Scientists in southern China report that they’ve tried to narrow the evolutionary gap, creating several transgenic macaque monkeys with extra copies of a human gene suspected of playing a role in shaping human intelligence. https://t.co/QQyJm82UFU
#Bioethics News: Measles has been in the news a lot lately. New York is one of the epicenters of a growing epidemic that poses a serious threat. 285 confirmed cases since last fall; with 21 leading to hospitalizations, and 5 to an admission to an ICU. https://t.co/12ffi3Sgle
#Bioethics News: Despite a worsening #Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization on Friday again decided not to declare the outbreak a global health emergency.
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