People who have badly damaged tendons may soon find relief from their own adult stem cells. From the story:A stem-cell repair technique that has already been used to fix hundreds of injured race horses is to be tested for the first time in people with damaged Achilles tendons.Privately owned British . . . . Continue Reading »
As I often say, the culture of death brooks no dissent. Now, none other than the controversial academic Stanley Fish claims that doctors and nurses who don’t wish to take human life as part of their medical work should just get over it. From his New York Times blog (of course): . . . . Continue Reading »
When the Stowers Institute Crowd financed and passed Amendment 2, it not only created a constitutional right to do human cloning research in Missouri, but as I pointed out during the campaign, it added a superfluous provision stating that if one kind of stem cell research received state support, . . . . Continue Reading »
Al Gore is set to head a venture capital foray into the very promising field of induced pluripotent stem cell research. From the story:Former vice president Al Gore is entering the stem cell arena with an announcement today of a $20 million biotech venture in the hot area of “induced . . . . Continue Reading »
Francis Beckwith’s comments on the death of porn star Marylyn Chambers: This morning I was greeted by a headline that the porn star, Marilyn Chambers (56), was found dead on Easter Sunday. Her obituary was written as if she had actually accomplished something. She was, of course, in her own . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember the CatholicVote.org ad from January that highlighted President Obama’s incredible story and ended with the tagline “Life: Imagine the Potential”? Well, now a German ad campaign is playing on the same theme but for an entirely different purpose. A new series of condom ads . . . . Continue Reading »
Think of the animal rights movement as predators that threaten an entire herd: All the animals are under threat but it is the weak, stragglers, or isolated that face the most concerted attack.Thus, while all animal research facilities are under threat, Huntingdon Life Sciences is the most vilified . . . . Continue Reading »
Oppose abortion or same-sex marriage? The Homeland Security Department thinks you could be a threat to national security on par with white supremacists: According to a Homeland Security Report distributed to law enforcement organizations, abortion opponents are as great a threat to national . . . . Continue Reading »
Alan Creech makes these beautiful, Franciscan-inspired, single-decade rosaries using natural materials with satisfying textures.If, like me, you not only have a San Damiano crucifix on your front door and a relic of Saint Francis in your living room, but are also a tactile person whose attention at . . . . Continue Reading »
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Governor of Illinois, protecting two pharmacists from having to dispense “Plan B” contraceptive pills due to religious objections. From the story:A central Illinois judge has ruled that the state can’t force two . . . . Continue Reading »
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