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Items here cover issues like nanotechnology, cybernetics, and transhumanism. These are set to change how we define 'humanity', and the way we live our lives. For Christians they raise some difficult questions.
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Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on novel neurotechnologies - 24/4/2012
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics issued a consultation on the ethics of new types of technologies and devices that 'intervene' in the brain, such as brain-computer interfaces, deep brain stimulation, and neural stem cell therapy. 'novel neurotechnologies' are in the early stages of translation from the laboratory to use in medical treatment or in...Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on the ethics of mitochondrial donation - 24/2/2012
The bypassing of inherited mitochondrial abnormalities using donor eggs to create embryos free of the disorder is an advancing area of research (creating so-called 'three parent embryos'). The Nuffield Council has been considering the ethical issues arising from these techniques to prevent the transmission of inherited mitochondrial disorders. The...Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics consultation on Emerging Biotechnologies: ethical issues - 23/6/2011
On April 4 2011 the Nuffield Council issued a consultation calling for views and evidence on the ethical issues raised by emerging biotechnologies. (www.nuffieldbioethics.org /emerging-biotechnologies) The Nuffield Council is interested in the way society and policy makers respond to new biotechnologies and how benefits from these technologies can...scientists compete with biological 'Lego' (nucleus - summer 2009)
Over 100 scientists from around the world are preparing to build machines out of microscopic biological components. The teams, most of whom are students, will be competing against each other and have 3 months from June to build their machines. The competition, in its 6th year, is run by the...
Joint statement to the House of Lords re Amendment 92 - 29/10/2008
Please do not vote for Amendment 92 - Express consent must remain as an inviolable human right - Amendment 92 would allow the use of tissue from children, mentally incapacitated adults, and existing stored cells, to be used without explicit consent, to make animal-human hybrids for stem cell research using cloning techniques. This provision was...Future Perfect? - God, Medicine and Human Identity (Book Review) (triple helix - summer 2008)
Celia Deane-Drummond and Peter Manley Scott - T&T Clark 2007 - £70.00 Hb 240pp - ISBN 13 9780567030795 - The Olympic authorities may ban Oscar Pistorius from competing because his carbonfibre lower limbs give him enhanced power over athletes with the traditional two fleshand- bone limbs. Is this a...
Boosting your brain (nucleus - spring 2008)
Rob Waller discusses mind-enhancing drugs - Most medical students are pretty good at passing exams, but who wouldn't want to be better? Advances in pharmacology have led to the creation of a generation of drugs that claim to enhance cognition. Now you can stay up all night, keep on task, and maybe...
HFE Bill Playlist
20/2/2008
A collection of TV and Radio interviews regarding embryo research, abortion and the HFE Bill currently making its way through Parliament.
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Written Evidence from CMF to the Joint Parliamentary Committee's consideration of the (Draft) Human Tissue and Embryos Bill - 11/6/2007
1. Christian Medical Fellowship's status - The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) is an interdenominational organisation, founded in 1949, with more than 4,500 British doctors as members. All are Christians who desire their professional and personal lives to be governed by the Christian faith as revealed in the Bible. Members practise in all...Human-animal hybrids - Government must maintain its proposed prohibition (triple helix - spring/summer 2007)
In 2005 the Department of Health consulted widely on the future of the Human Fertilisation Embryology (HFE) Act, and CMF made a substantial Submission.[1] One of the many questions asked concerned creating human hybrid and chimera embryos, which would contain genetic material from both humans and...