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Revive & Restore’s Woolly Mammoth Revival Project
By: Risa Aria Schnebly
| Published: Jan 19, 2021
In 2015, Revive & Restore launched the Woolly Mammoth Revival Project with a goal of engineering a creature with genes from the woolly mammoth…
conservationAnimal diversity conservationWildlife conservationgene editingbioethics
Henrietta Lacks (1920–1951)
By: Rohini Nott
| Published: Oct 09, 2020
Henrietta Lacks, born Loretta Pleasant, had terminal cervical cancer in 1951, and was diagnosed at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,…
PeopleAfrican American History MonthWomen in medicine--HistoryMedicine--United States--Historybioethics
Interspecies SCNT-derived Humanesque Blastocysts
By: Sarah Taddeo, Jason S. Robert, Nicole Diehnelt
| Published: Jun 23, 2017
Since the 1950s, scientists have developed interspecies blastocysts in laboratory settings, but not until the 1990s did proposals emerge to engineer…
BlastocystDiseasesbioethicsTadpoleCell nuclei--Transplantation
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
By: Grace Kim
| Published: Jun 09, 2017
The Boys from Brazil is a science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin about an underground neo-Nazi society in South…
LiteratureEugenicsGenetic EngineeringReproductive technologyBiotechnology
Gattaca (1997)
By: Grace Kim
| Published: Feb 09, 2017
Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film produced in the US that depicts a future society that uses reproductive technology and genetic engineering in…
LiteratureEugenicsGenetic EngineeringReproductive technologyBiotechnology
Jeter v. Mayo (2005)
By: Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Oct 22, 2016
In Jeter v. Mayo, the Court of Appeals of Arizona in 2005 held that a cryopreserved, three-day-old pre-embryo is not a person for purposes of Arizona…
LawCryopreservationEmbryo transplantationFrozen human embryosFertilization in Vitro
Hwang Woo-suk's Use of Human Eggs for Research 2002-2005
By: Anne Safiya Clay
| Published: Aug 12, 2014
Hwang Woo-suk, a geneticist in South Korea, claimed in Science magazine in 2004 and 2005 that he and a team of researchers had for the first time…
ContextbioethicsHuman cloning--Research--Law and legislationInformed consent (Medical law)Oocyte Donation
"Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Executive Summary" (1999), by the US National Bioethics Advisory Commission
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Apr 01, 2014
Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Executive Summary was published in September 1999 by The US National Bioethics Advisory Commission in…
LiteraturebioethicsStem cells--ResearchEmbryonic Stem CellsStem Cells
The US President's Council on Bioethics (2001-2009)
By: Ceara O'Brien
| Published: Feb 18, 2014
The US President's Council on Bioethics was an organization headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W…
OrganizationbioethicsAdvisory boardsStem CellsEmbryonic Stem Cells
In re Marriage of Witten (2003)
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| Published: Jan 22, 2014
In re Marriage of Witten, decided by the Iowa Supreme Court in 2003, held that neither Tamera nor Arthur (Trip) Witten could use or destroy several…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroEmbryosPregnancy