The regulations should specifically refer to DNA samples collected from healthy children, whose parents have signed them up for long-term studies, leading ethics experts say. The data should not be made public, and released in the scientific community until the children reach an age when they can give their consent f... |
14 August 2009
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In a new set of studies conducted by experts at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, a new type of brain behavior was discovered. Basically, it refers to the way people perceive opinion questions, even before they become aware of the answers that are normally a... |
27 July 2009
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The recent news in the headlines, which claim that fat people could somehow change the planet if they simply started eating less, have generated a lot of debate on the Internet. While some agree and say that the obese and overweight should start consuming less, others maintain that it's simply rude to hang all t... |
22 April 2009
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A medical ethicist from the Michigan State University says that the current path on which the American health care system is going is completely unsustainable, as evidenced by the fact that costs have soared to more than $2.5 trillion, and yet 48 million citizens remain uninsured. He states that such disparities do n... |
11 March 2009
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As stem cell research is currently making impressive headway in the creation of artificial organs, doctors in the UK are starting to ponder the ethical implications of performing voice box transplants. This type of surgical procedure refers to replacing a human larynx, the organ that is responsible for giving each ma... |
27 February 2009
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For us, wanting to go back in time is as natural as thinking and breathing. Around the world, countless people, myself included, believe that a simple trip to a certain point in our past would most likely change the course of our lives, maybe for the better, because I imagine no one would like to go back and make thi... |
14 February 2009
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Today's issue of the Journal Science is home to a troublesome plea of University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science professor Noel Sharkey, a robot advocate, who says that ethic guidelines for the correct use of robots has to be set in place before they become an affordable commodity worldwide and will ... |
19 December 2008
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Under existing Swiss laws, people are allowed to seek a doctor willing to give them a lethal dose of drugs, if they suffer from incurable diseases, or they simply are in too much pain from their medical conditions. Non-profit organizations, founded to answer this need, operate in Switzerland under the assumption that... |
15 December 2008
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The international scientific community has been constantly losing credibility over the past years because some of its members simply enjoy fraud, and thus fail to present concrete and correct data when asked for their objective assessment. The Research Integrity Forum of the European Science Foundation (ESF), a newly... |
10 December 2008
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The exponential progress of technology helps specialists design and build ever more advanced machines expected to fully replace humans soon. They already look quite similar to us, or are able to chat, although they are much stronger, play musical instruments better, beat humans at chess, ride monocycles, drive cars, ... |
20 November 2008
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Recent statistics show that the number of plagiarism cases in American schools has been constantly increasing over the past few years, especially since access to the Internet became readily available for everyone. Students admit in various studies that they used the copy/paste method of cheating on their papers at le... |
18 November 2008
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It's official, Google's got issues with the morally questionable PayPerPost. The Mountain View based mammoth started punishing the respective bloggers by completely removing their page rank. It was only last week that Google made its opinion on the freedom of speech available for all to read in a blog that ... |
19 November 2007
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