Gametes and embryos from mammalian stem cells: religious and ethics perspectives
...pon which the entire structure of protecting human rights is built. Enter first cloning (Somatic Cell Nuclea...who try to ground protection of the early embryo's rights on an alleged natural law that personhood arises when the egg is penetrated by the sperm and God imp...Universities to share technologies to fight hunger in developing countries; improve domestic crops
... intellectual property rights. Ownership of these rights is currently fragmented across many institutions i...hich makes it difficult to identify who holds what rights to what technologies, in which countries, and to establish whether or not a new crop variety is at r...Envisat focuses on carbon-rich peat swamp forest fires
...known to reach a thickness of up to 20 metres. By rights these humid peat swamps shouldn't be vulnerable to flame but during the last couple of decades the Indonesian government started draining them for conversion into agricultural land. In an unfortunate side effect the dried-up peat swamps are turned in...UCSD scientists develop novel way to screen molecules
...ology," explains La Clair, who provided the patent rights to the method to UCSD. "Using inkjet printing to attach molecules to the surface of a CD, we identified proteins adhering to these molecules by their interaction with the laser light when read by a CD player." While usually anything, like a scratch ...Toxic protein could explain Alzheimer's and lead to breakthroughs
...on and use of ADDLs in neurodisorders. The patent rights have been licensed to Acumen Pharmaceuticals, based in Glenview, Ill., for the development of drugs that treat Alzheimer's disease and other memory-related disorders. Clinical trials could be two or three years away. In addition to Klein, Krafft and...Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded crop protection patent
...including rice and cassava. Monsanto has donated rights to the technology to a number of public institutions. "The sharing of this technology has been critical in creating virus-resistant crops for developing countries around the world," Fraley said. In addition to the successes in papaya, Monsanto is c...Human rights in Peru: AAAS analysis doubles previous estimates of killings
...ducted quantitative analyses for large-scale human rights data projects in Africa, Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe....Critical Therapeutics announces issuance of US patent for novel anti-inflammatory technology
... of Biomedical Research. CTI in-licensed exclusive rights to the patent from the Institute. In an article published in the December 22, 2002 online edition of Nature, Dr. Tracey and his team identified the essential chemical receptor that dispatches a signal that inhibits the production of TNF. That recepto...Mark your calendar for the American Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago Nov. 19-23
... in the USA, death penalty as a violation of human rights and the plight of American Indians in prison.. Hig... anthropologists discuss gross violations of human rights in the administration of the death penalty. Includes discussion of the pseudo-science of "future dan...How genes orchestrate facial expressions
...nes. "These genes are involved in making sure the rights parts of the body are made in the right place," Capecchi says. "They do this both by providing information as to what each part of the embryo should become, as well as giving information as to what it shouldn't become." He says that all mammals have...Scientific study of twins shows forgiveness has genetic component
...ote speakers include Martin Luther King III, civil rights activist and head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Martin Seligman, past president of the American Psychological Association; and Les Parrott, relationship expert and author of Love the Life You Live. The conference is hosted by A Ca...The DFG funds a new research vessel
...tablishment of this consortium, to which the usage rights for all medium-sized research vessels shall eventually be transferred, has been on the agenda of BLAG for a number of years. In order to facilitate the operation and usage of the Maria S. Merian until the operating consortium is established, the vess...Wanted: Innovations to feed the hungry
...eeds, governments offer them intellectual property rights over their innovations but these have value only when a technology's users can be made to pay for it. Professor Masters' proposal is intended to help fill the gap between these two methods, to reward innovations that are not now being rewarded thro...Scientists develop a novel strategy to help prevent transplant rejection
...treatment of allergy." The clinical and commercial rights to this broad new approach to changing immune responses have been assigned to Lorantis Ltd. The company recently announced that it has raised 25 million from private equity venture funds to develop products based on Notch signalling in transplantatio...McGill Centre for Intellectual Property Policy receives $3 million SSHRC Grant
...national effort to reexamine intellectual property rights relating to biotechnological innovation in the health and agricultural sectors. Robert Cook-Deegan, member of the CIPP and Director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy at Duke University in the United States, noted: "This grant from...Dr. Walter Reich, Ph.D., receives prestigious AAAS 2003 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award
...onduct of science, Walter Reich, champion of human rights and the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior at George Washington University, has been named to receive the highly coveted American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2003 Scientific Free...DRUG company contracts and intellectual property rights are impeding efforts to ensure an outbreak of bird flu in Vietnam does not result in a deadly human pandemic. All the victims so far got the disease from poultry, but the big fear is that the virus could turn into a form capable of spreading from pe...Two-drug approach might shorten painful labor, reduce Caesarean sections
...vate company in California, recently purchased the rights to recombinant human relaxin. "It remains to be determined if BAS Medical will choose to explore the use of relaxin as an agent to facilitate delivery," Sherwood said. The researchers propose that relaxin could replace the use of dinoprostone (prosta...NAFTA arbitrators in environmental case agree to formal public input, a first for trade hearings
... that California violated guarantees of investors' rights when it banned a polluting gasoline additive manuf...ex, of British Columbia, says its NAFTA Chapter 11 rights were violated when the state banned MTBE, a suspected carcinogen. The breakthrough, communicated to ......s Abilene Ag Service and Supply. He also holds the rights to WinMaster, a PVPA wheat variety that's popular among Central West Texas producers. Vinson explained the scenario: "Say a farmer plants some of this WinMaster seed, a protected variety, and that wheat did pretty well for him. So he says, ?Well I'll...