Bush sacks outspoken biologist from ethics council

CLONING-STATEMENT FROM THE DANISH COUNCIL OF ETHICS Introduction to the Danish Council of Ethics’ Position

Cloning is asexual reproduction. That means that an individual can be created without the involvement of any egg and sperm cells. Cloning generates a copy of the cloned organism’s genesunlike sexual reproduction, in which the offspring takes one half of its genes from the egg cell and the other half from the sperm cell. The cloning debate arouses intense emotions, which presumably has to do wit...

SWEDISH NATIONAL COUNCIL on MEDICAL-ETHICS Prenatal diagnosis: the Ethics

Lessons from a great developmental biologist.

The announcement that Sir John Gurdon had been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology was received with great joy by developmental biologists. It was a very special occasion because of his total dedication to science and turning the Golden Rule of western civilization - love your neighbor as yourself - into a reality in our field. This essay attempts to explain how John became ...

Role of the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council.

Arithmetical Sacks Forcing

We answer a question of Jockusch by constructing a hyperimmunefree minimal degree below a 1-generic one. To do this we introduce a new forcing notion called arithmetical Sacks forcing. Some other applications are presented.