Global bioethics – myth or reality?

The myth of the Chinese culture, the myth of Chinese medical ethics.

Genetic manipulation for inherited neurodegenerative diseases: myth or reality?

Rare genetic diseases affect about 7% of the general population and over 7000 distinct clinical syndromes have been described with the majority being due to single gene defects. This review will provide a critical overview of genetic strategies that are being pioneered to halt or reverse disease progression in inherited neurodegenerative diseases. This field of research covers a vast area and o...

Bioethics in biomedicine in the context of a global higher education area

The University is tasked with drawing together, transmitting and maintaining knowledge, while creating an area where the ethical "sense" required for working in the field of Biology and Biomedicine can be provided. Although scientific knowledge is present on an overwhelming scale in nature and, therefore, its discovery is unceasing, this does not mean that, as a human being, the researcher has ...

Web Application Worms : Myth or Reality ? Automated , self - propagating attacks on vulnerabilities in custom Web application code

..................................................................... 3 Introduction ............................................................... 3 Anatomy of an Automated Application Worm ....... 4 War Searching............................................................ 5 Advanced War Searching.......................................... 7 The Search of Death ...................................

Book review – Global Bioethics: an Introduction by Henk ten Have

When one googles the words “global bioethics” and “the book,” one can see that the author of the greatest number of books with “global bioethics” in the title is Henk ten Have. After a handbook and an encyclopedia of global bioethics and after a discussion on bioethics education from a global perspective, Henk ten Have decided to write an introduction to the subject of global bioethics. His lat...