This shouldn’t be a surprise because scientists have worried about it all along, but ES cells injected in mice clearly stimulated the kind of immune rejection seen with transplanted organs. From the Scientific American story:The much-ballyhooed human embryonic stem cell apparently may share a . . . . Continue Reading »
Archbishop Chaput has been a very busy man of late. He’s just come out with a new book from Doubleday entitled Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life . There is also his recent article on real hope and change here at First Things . And sometime . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend John Wilson, the editor of Books & Culture , knows about my recent obsession with Mars , and so he asked me to review a science-fiction book about a flight to the planet, which I was glad to do. I’m not sure, however, that he was glad to receive the review, since I used it as an . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been reading Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop , struck by the austere beauty of the landscape she paints: In all his travels, the Bishop had seen no country like this. From the flat red sea of sand rose great rock mesas, generally Gothic in outline, resembling vast . . . . Continue Reading »
The ever-lively and independent Mark Shea explains his refusal to vote for either major presidential candidate thus : Millions of babies will be killed whichever of these guys is elected. One will zealously try to make sure the maximum number die in sacrifice to the Culture of Adult Desire. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Upon the occasion of Zimbabwe’s independence, Bob Marley wrote a song unimaginatively titled “Zimbabwe.” Marley may not have been the sage many of his fans take him for, but Zimbabwe’s post-independence decline into bloody tyranny makes these lines from the song seem . . . . Continue Reading »
A great comfort to many of my socially liberal interlocutors in college bull-sessions was the seemingly inevitable leftward drift of Western Europe, reflected in the increasing permissiveness of elected officials across the political spectrum. But The Economist says that Britain’s Tories may . . . . Continue Reading »
An interesting ESCR success was published in the journal Blood. ES cells were morphed into blood, offering the potential of greatly easing blood shortages and making transfusions safer for patients. From the story: In the new study, researchers were able to make as many as 100 billion red blood . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s another event in the New York area that you might consider attending. Starting on September 6, on the first Saturday of every month, there will be Witness for Life, an event sponsored by The Helpers of God’s Precious Infants with the help of the Sisters of Life and the Friars of . . . . Continue Reading »
The stem cell issue sure didn’t turn out to be as potent—or as important—as people expected this time last year. With the IPSC breakthrough, President Bush’s funding limitations ceased to be a cutting edge issue in the presidential campaign. That won’t matter to Senator . . . . Continue Reading »
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