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Embryo Adoption, Stem Cell Research, Partial Birth Abortion Oh My: Breaking News From DITM

When does human life begin and what is a human? Fertility specialists wrestle with this question every day as embryos are created, frozen, thawed, implanted, and discarded. Occasionally an embryo is...

Partial Birth Abortion, Stem Cell Research, Embryo Adoption, Oh My: Breaking News From DITM

Whendoes human life begin and what is a human? Fertility specialists wrestle with this question every day as embryos are created, frozen, thawed, implanted, and discarded.Occasionally an embryo is...

Partial Birth Abortion, Stem Cell Research, Embryo Adoption, Oh My: Breaking Research News

Whendoes human life begin and what is a human? Fertility specialists wrestle with this question every day as embryos are created, frozen, thawed, implanted, and discarded.Rarely they get adopted....

Babies Without Men: Creating Sperm From A Woman’s Bone Marrow

Scientists report today on the ability to create sperm from bone marrow cells. Initially performed in men, the technique could potentially be performed in women and lead to a sperm cell made from a...

Babies Without Men: Creating Sperm From A Woman’s Bone Marrow

Scientists report today on the ability to create sperm from bone marrow cells.  Initially performed in men, the technique could potentially be performed in women and lead to a sperm cell made from a...

Carnivals Galore: Grand Rounds x 2 and GeneGenie

I wanted to catch up with the recent carnivals and thank them for including docinthemachine’s posts. First was keagirl a great medblogger who writes at urostream.  This grand rounds was...

DITM 2 New Podcast Projects Close to Launch!

New Podcast Projects:  The past two weeks have been a wild ride of fun and excitement!  I have two podcast projects undergoing the final edits prior to launcing.  The first is the docinthemachine...

DITM at Podcamp NYC

In preparation for my two new podcast projects I spent the day at Podcamp NYC- the “unconference” of podcasters.  THe idea of an unconference is that the participants script the events -...

If You Transfer Your Mind to Robot Which One of You is “You”?

Kurzweil and others have been forecasting the coming of the technological singularity for some time. The term, coined by Vernor Vinge, describes the creation of “humans 2.0″ when man and...

Human-Animal Mutant Animal Developed: It’s Not the First! DITM Personal Experience

Many reports on-line are coming out about chimeric man-sheep creatures developed. Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human...