The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) Ethics Task Force sets out a recommended multidisciplinary approach to the application of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). The statement includes consideration of fundamental ethical principles, specific problems in cases of high genetic risk, and PGD for aneuploidy screening, HLA typing and sex selection for non-medical ...

The first commercial exploitation of genetic technologies in the 1980s sparked a continuing debate over their acceptability, ethics and implications for society. Since this time, cloning, genetic screening and gene therapy have become topics of an intense discussion about how to use the potential of biotechnology in the best interests of the public, while criticism and outrage are mostly direct...

Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences Genes: Our Codes for Life Lecture/Discussion Topics: The Origin of Blue Eyes (p. 188) The Genetic Revolution (p. 189) Classroom Exercise: Genetic Factors (p. 187) Classroom Exercise/Lecture Break: Biology Is More Than Just Genes (p. 190) NEW Classroom Exercise/Student Project: Genetic Influences (p. 189) Worth Video Anthology: Behavior Geneti...

Recent advances in genetics have transformed the mere possibilities of genetic testing and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis into clinical realities. Although undergraduate science professors are able to explicate the science behind these new technologies, they are not always ready to discuss the ethical and social impacts of these new practices. In order to introduce to our students the compl...

this research is a new attempt in order to study the effect of evolution theory in the dimension of empirical ethics. in the contemporary area the evolutionary ethics is in the three branches: descriptive, prescriptive and meta-ethics. the descriptive evolutionary ethics tries to modify human’s ethical believes in the evolutionary aspect and achieves more share from two others part in this grou...

INTRODUCTION Up to 9 out of 10 intensive care unit (ICU) survivors will suffer some degree of cognitive impairment at hospital discharge and approximately half will have decrements that persist for years. The mechanisms for this newly acquired brain injury are poorly understood. The purpose of this study is to describe the prevalence of sleep abnormalities and their association with cognitive i...