Keyword: frankenstein
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Mixed chicks sing song of a different species Bird brains hardwired to learn own songs By ANNE MCILROY McGill University researcher Evan Balaban performs brain transplants on chickens to make them sing like quails. He takes bits of brain from quail embryos and attaches them to the brains of embryonic chickens still snug in their eggs. When they hatch, the chickens look normal, except for the dark, quail-coloured feathers sprouting out of their heads. But they do not sound normal. Instead of crowing the classic cock-a-doodle-doo, they sing the two introductory notes and the long trill of a quail song....
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HOUSTON, October 27, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An experiment has been underway for a month in a Houston Texas where parents are permitted to ask scientists for a child with the gender of their choice. The procedure involves preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) which is able to detect the sex of embryos created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) prior to their implantation in their mothers' wombs. While sex selection via PGD has been allowed in some cases where sex-linked diseases are concerned, the clinical trial is seeking to gage the impact of sex selection at the whim of the parents. According to...
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"And so basically, what it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executed" because "outing a CIA agent is treason," left-wing author and radio talk show host Al Franken asserted Friday night, to audience laughter, on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman. Franken qualified his hard-edged stire: "Yeah, and I don't know how I feel about it because I'm basically against the death penalty, but they are going to be executed it looks like." Franken later suggested that President Bush is at risk of receiving the same punishment, since Karl Rove...
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Artificial wombs will be "reality" within 20 years, according to the London Times. Indeed, 20 years seems a conservative estimate given an earlier report in The Guardian, another UK newspaper, which predicted them for 2008. Discussion of ectogenesis — growing an embryo outside the mother's womb — may sound wildly futuristic. But a few years ago, cloning and genetic modification seemed impossible. A few years before that, the idea of a 66-year-old woman giving birth was absurd; it happened last January. And only last week, British scientists received an official go-ahead to create human embryos from two mothers with no...
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BRITISH scientists have been given permission to create human embryos that will have three genetic parents. The fertility watchdog cleared a team at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne yesterday to conduct an experiment to prevent genetic disease by merging single-cell embryos with donated eggs. The decision to approve the procedure on appeal, after two previous applications were rejected, is controversial because it could eventually lead to the birth of children who carry genes from two mothers and a father. It also opens the possibility of “germ-line” genetic engineering, because any children born would carry added genes that would be...
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It is a good idea to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. It is a bad idea to do that without prohibiting research that uses embryos created specifically to be used in research and destroyed. What is deeply troubling about the Castle-DeGette stem-cell bill that passed the House and will soon roar through the Senate is that it combines the good with the bad: expansion with no limit. The expansion--federal funding for stem cells derived from some of the thousands of discarded fertility-clinic embryos that are already slated for extinction--is good because President Bush's sincere and principled Aug. 9,...
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Critics demanded an apology Thursday from the founder of the Christian ministry Focus on the Family after he compared the ethics of embryonic stem cell research to Nazi experiments on Holocaust victims. James Dobson made the comments Wednesday during his radio show, which reaches an estimated 220 million people worldwide. Dobson was criticizing Sen. Bill Frist and others who support expanded stem cell research in hopes that stem cells one day could be used to replace cells damaged from such conditions as diabetes, spinal cord injury or Parkinson's disease. Dobson and other opponents object to the research because embryos are...
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Under a bill the Legislature could take up next year, Florida would promote and provide money for medical research using embryonic stem cells that would otherwise be discarded. Rep. Franklin Sands, a Democrat from Broward County, said Wednesday he will file a bill that would specifically authorize the use of embryonic stem cells produced by in-vitro fertilization that aren't implanted and would otherwise be discarded or destroyed. The measure would also provide for some state funding for studies involving the embryonic cells, which Sands and other supporters say could hold the key to cures for a range of diseases and...
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It had the face of Frankenstein and the hands of a werewolf.Outfitted in jeans and flannel shirt, the creature - stuffed with crumpled newspaper - hung by the neck on a homemade gallows outside a home in the Allendale neighborhood.To its owner, "Bob" was a Halloween decoration. But to Omali Yeshitela, it was a racially charged symbol of hate.On Tuesday, as police officers on the scene scrambled to contact the homeowner at work, Yeshitela and others from the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement tore the dummy down.
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in today's Wal-Mart ad, note the Kerry doll in the upper left corner.:
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The pundits are already prognosticating about last night’s presidential debates. Many say John Kerry “won,” but that’s not yet entirely clear. Am I the only person who noticed Kerry’s constant smirking, nodding, head-shaking, and general smugness while the President answered questions? Didn’t anyone else notice Jim Lehrer’s loaded questions directed at President Bush? Maybe Kerry scored a few points for debating, but he certainly didn’t win the November election early. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 615 registered voters who viewed the debate showed that Kerry “fared better” than Bush, but also revealed that those same voters still preferred President Bush...
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The Washington ComPost is soiling their panties in excitement over a speech Kerry gave at New York University. The speech was received here as the beginning of Kerry's Incredible Hulk moment, when, angry and provoked, he finally unleashes his inner demon. Close, Unwashed Composties.. Right idea, wrong inhuman monster.... Meanwhile, Kerry's supporters are convinced that he just needs the right slogan du jour. We haven't heard the most recent one (Operation Rosie Palms... erm, Rosy Scenario) was introduced on Sunday since oh, at least Monday. Still, "for the first time, I'm thinking about it," says Ellen Jacob, a Democratic activist...
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WizBand blog has a photo of Al Franken getting in somebodies face on radio row.
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As Al Franken considers challenging Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., for re-election in 2008, the comedian and liberal radio host is looking to his hometown senator for advice: Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites). "I asked Hillary, 'Can you give me some suggestions about running for Senate in a state you haven't lived for in a while, or in your case, ever?' " Franken recalled, laughing heartily. "And she said, 'This will be a long conversation,' so we agreed to have a long conversation about it." Clinton, D-N.Y., moved from Washington to New York to run for the Senate. Franken...
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I was a fly on the wall to the most amusing conversation at lunch yesterday. Conservative Christian biologist is considered an oxymoron. Well I am one. And my colleagues know it. Working in Princeton NJ I’m surrounded by academic liberal elite type from New York and Jersey They know I’m always late for lunch because I’m listening to Rush Limbaugh’s opening monologue. They also know that when they get me going on politics that I give no quarter. The phrase I here most often is “yes you make sense and I know that socialism doesn’t make anyone rich but can’t...
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The progressive talk network Air America kicks off today, hoping to give nonconservatives a daily place to roast their ideological opposites. Just the way conservatives do now. Air America can be heard locally on WLIB (1190 AM), over XM satellite radio or by Internet at airamericaradio.com. While the network hopes to stir controversy, it already has some here that it probably doesn't want. A community rally is planned tomorrow night at 7 at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 132 Odell Clark Place, to protest the loss of WLIB's talk and Caribbean programming. The Coalition of Artists and Activists wants a boycott...
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Harvard Starts Its Own Controversial Cell Batch By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent Scientists at Harvard University announced on Wednesday they had created 17 batches of stem cells from human embryos, in defiance of attempts by President Bush to limit such research. Bush has forbidden the use of federal funds to manipulate human embryos and limited scientific research to a few existing batches of cells taken from fertility clinic leftovers. But scientists have complained this limits a promising field of biological research and medicine based on the potential of the cells, which theoretically can be directed to form any...
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Life Issues Forum Farming Humans for Fun and Profitby Richard M. DoerflingerJanuary 20, 2004 "Farming” fetuses for body parts. Human/animal hybrids. Putting unborn humans in animal wombs. Buying and selling human embryos. Patenting human beings. Chapter headings for a science-fiction potboiler? No. Just a typical day at the office for members of the President’s Council on Bioethics. On January 16, The President’s Council released a draft report that deserves attention from all Americans concerned about the use and abuse of science. Its title, “Biotechnology and Public Policy: Biotechnologies Affecting the Beginnings of Human Life,” is far from exciting; but its...
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