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cmf file 49 - emerging medical technologies: ethical issues ()

By John Wyatt and Philippa Taylor. John Wyatt is Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics at University College, London. Philippa Taylor is CMF Head of Public Policy Oscar Pistorius made history at the London 2012 Olympic Games by becoming the first double amputee to compete against able-bodied athletes on the...

Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on novel neurotechnologies (24/04/2012)

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,...

Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on the ethics of mitochondrial donation (24/02/2012)

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...

Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics consultation on Emerging Biotechnologies: ethical issues (23/06/2011)

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...

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...

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...

Future Perfect? - God, Medicine and Human Identity (Book Review) (triple helix - summer 2008)

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 technical argument, or a deep philosophical and theological issue that begins with trying to establish exactly what it is to...

Boosting your brain (nucleus - spring 2008)

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 even boost your IQ....

HFE Bill Playlist

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 non-human animals. Of the...