Panel to recommend Japan lift ban on cloning human embryos

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Japan panel approves human cloning for
research

Japan panel approves human cloning for
research 07/25/2004 10:50 AM

Cloning Creates Human Embryos

Cloning Creates Human Embryos 02/12/2004 10:10 AM
Scientists in South Korea report that they have created human embryos through cloning and extracted embryonic stem cells.

Scientists Create Human Embryos Through
Cloning

Scientists Create Human Embryos Through
Cloning 02/11/2004 11:06 PM
Scientists in South Korea report that they have created human embryos through cloning and extracted embryonic stem cells.

Japan Approves Limited Human Cloning

Japan Approves Limited Human Cloning 08/03/2004 12:11 AM

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“A Japanese government advisory panel on Wednesday approved a policy to allow researchers to create cloned human embryos for research, but under strict rules, an official said. The 21-member bioethics subcommittee decided to include the recommendation for human cell cloning for basic research when proper conditions are met, for instance, the creation of a government system to evaluate research.” I guess they don’t have a right to life lobby……

Japan Science Council OKs Human Cloning
(AP)

Japan Science Council OKs Human Cloning
(AP) 07/24/2004 04:56 AM
AP - The government's top science council has voted to adopt policy recommendations that would permit limited cloning of human embryos for scientific research in Japan, an official said.

Cloning embryos: Your Views

Cloning embryos: Your Views 02/12/2004 10:00 AM
South Korean scientists have cloned 30 human embryos to obtain cells they hope could one day be used to treat disease. Tell us what you think about embryo cloning.

Researchers clone human embryos

Researchers clone human embryos 02/12/2004 02:43 AM
USA Today Feb 12 2004 6:14AM GMT

UK allows scientists to clone human
embryos

UK allows scientists to clone human
embryos 08/13/2004 01:27 AM
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Mature Human Embryos Cloned
(washingtonpost.com)

Mature Human Embryos Cloned
(washingtonpost.com) 02/12/2004 07:49 AM
washingtonpost.com - Scientists in South Korea are reporting today that they have created the world's first mature, cloned human embryos -- an advance that could speed the development of new therapies but also brings scientists a big step closer to being able to make cloned babies.

Scientists Say Human Embryos Cloned (Los
Angeles Times)

Scientists Say Human Embryos Cloned (Los
Angeles Times) 02/12/2004 05:51 AM
Los Angeles Times - South Korean scientists say they have succeeded in creating human embryo clones, a major breakthrough for the promising field of stem cell therapy — and for the far more controversial endeavor of cloning human beings.

Cloned Human Embryos Yield Stem Cells

Cloned Human Embryos Yield Stem Cells 02/13/2004 12:53 AM

Britain Grants License to Make Human
Embryos for Stem Cells

Britain Grants License to Make Human
Embryos for Stem Cells 08/11/2004 11:15 PM
The one-year license was granted to researchers who hope to develop tissues that will treat diabetes, Alzheimer's and other diseases.

9/11 Panel to Recommend Top Intelligence
Post -- NYT

9/11 Panel to Recommend Top Intelligence
Post -- NYT 07/17/2004 09:23 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 18 2004 1:36AM GMT

9/11 Panel to Recommend Top Intelligence
Post -- NYT (Reuters)

9/11 Panel to Recommend Top Intelligence
Post -- NYT (Reuters) 07/17/2004 04:28 PM
Reuters - The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks will recommend creating a Cabinet-level post charged with overseeing all U.S. intelligence agencies, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

Report: 9/11 Panel to Recommend Top
Intelligence Post

Report: 9/11 Panel to Recommend Top
Intelligence Post 07/18/2004 10:30 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 18 2004 1:36PM GMT

Human Cloning Marches On, Without U.S.
Help

Human Cloning Marches On, Without U.S.
Help 02/15/2004 01:12 AM
If American researchers lose their technical lead in the cloning race, Washington will also forfeit the chance to set the ethical rules of the game.

Report: 9/11 Panel to Recommend Top
Intelligence Post (Reuters)

Report: 9/11 Panel to Recommend Top
Intelligence Post (Reuters) 07/18/2004 07:17 AM
Reuters - The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks will recommend creating a Cabinet-level post charged with overseeing all U.S. intelligence agencies, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

U.N. delays treaty on human cloning

U.N. delays treaty on human cloning 11/07/2003 09:59 AM
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Human embryo cloning OKed in UK

Human embryo cloning OKed in UK 08/11/2004 08:13 AM
Rich sez, "British scientists have been granted permission to clone human embryos for medical research, it was announced today."

They plan to duplicate early-stage embryos and extract stem cells from them which can be used for radical new treatments.

The embryos are destroyed before they are 14-days old and never allowed to develop beyond a cluster of cells the size of a pinhead.

The green-light was given by the research licensing body the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority after weeks of discussion.

Dr Miodrag Stojkovic, from the university’s Institute of Human Genetics, said: “We are all set up and ready to go immediately as soon as the paper work is sorted out.

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Human cloning license issued in UK

Human cloning license issued in UK 08/12/2004 07:35 AM

Human Cloning: The State of the Science

Human Cloning: The State of the Science 02/17/2004 06:03 AM
Business Week Feb 17 2004 10:18AM GMT

Panel to Recommend Increased Private
Role in Space Launches

Panel to Recommend Increased Private
Role in Space Launches 06/14/2004 02:45 PM
White House commission will recommend that NASA give private corporations a broader role in space launches -- and a greater share of the financial burden.

Japanese council approves human cloning

Japanese council approves human cloning 07/23/2004 06:32 PM

Human-powered Helicopter Fails to Lift
Off

Human-powered Helicopter Fails to Lift
Off 08/13/2004 09:07 AM

Rebecca moderates the Japan panel

Rebecca moderates the Japan panel 01/23/2004 02:18 PM

Rebecca MacKinnon is moderating a Japan panel this year.

Last year, when I was on a Japan panel and MC'ing the Japan dinner, Japan was still looking dismal and my role as risk taking agitator was a good card for the Japanese to play to try to show that they were trying to change.

This year, the economy is "recovering" and the panel is populated by more of the old-school participants who are cautiously trying to explain the "turn-around" and how the "recovery" will continue.

I think the consensus is that the engine of the recovery is the restructuring of private companies and that the government policy and reforms are the oil.

I personally think that we need more fundamental changes in Japan, but I think that the incentive to make big changes will decrease as long as this fragile recovery continues. I think it's probably more constructive for me to spend my efforts on global issues and blogging until Japan needs my subversive energy again. ;-)

Comment from the audience: It's not the number of women in the women in the Japanese workforce, but rather their role in the workforce.

UPDATE: Ack! Rebecca glared at me, I shook my head, but she called on me for a comment anyway. I asked whether the more painful reforms are going to get less attention now that people are focused on the recover and making people feel comfortable.

One of the panel members disagreed with me and asserted that with political will, many of the fundamental changes will continue to happen and might even be easier.

Hmm... maybe in some areas, but I doubt it. Maybe I should have defined "fundamental changes."

Japan Panel Recommends Dropping Cow
Tests (AP)

Japan Panel Recommends Dropping Cow
Tests (AP) 09/06/2004 05:32 AM
AP - Japan could stop testing newborn and younger cows for mad cow disease without posing a risk to public health, a special panel decided Monday, in a ruling that could influence talks to lift Tokyo's ban on American beef imports.

IVF clinics may tag embryos

IVF clinics may tag embryos 04/01/2005 06:47 AM
My first RFID

Human, all too human -- News-Digests.Com
re-launches

Human, all too human -- News-Digests.Com
re-launches 06/08/2004 02:59 AM
Human news aggregation operation expands to multiple publications. [PRWEB Jun 8, 2004]

Dolly scientists to clone embryos

Dolly scientists to clone embryos 04/21/2004 02:06 AM
The scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep want to use cloned human embryos to study motor neurone disease.

First lady opposes using embryos for
research

First lady opposes using embryos for
research 06/09/2004 02:03 PM

Bush Opposes Using Embryos for Research
(AP)

Bush Opposes Using Embryos for Research
(AP) 06/09/2004 09:00 AM
AP - Ronald Reagan's death from complications of Alzheimer's disease has not changed President Bush's stand against using embryos for stem cell research, Laura Bush said Wednesday.

Embryos Yield New Stem Cell Lines

Embryos Yield New Stem Cell Lines 06/10/2004 06:16 AM
Scientists at a Chicago fertility clinic isolate 12 new lines from genetically flawed human embryos. The research could lead to increased understanding of genetic diseases.

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"Why I don't recommend Firefox"

"Why I don't recommend Firefox" 09/07/2004 08:02 PM

Why I don't recommend Firefox

Why I don't recommend Firefox 09/06/2004 04:27 PM

Firefox has a grassroots marketing campaign underway where they’re trying to get bloggers to add a Firefox button to their blogs. Asa Dotzler recently sent me an email asking me to participate.

We noticed and appreciate your repeated recommendations for Firefox at your weblog and we were hoping that you would further help get the word out by adding a small Firefox button to your blog. The image is hosted at mozilla.org and the code to add it is some very simple HTML. We depend on word of mouth (or of blog) and we appreciate your helping to spread the word with positive blog posts. If you’re interested in helping with this effort, you can find the buttons at http://www .mozilla.org/products/firefox/buttons.html.

Actually, I don’t think I ever have recommended Firefox. I use it and talk about it on occassion, but I think the browser has some way to go before I’d recommend it to the general population. Something as simple as upgrading from one version to another needs to be seamless and not break things before I’d suggest that everyone use Firefox. I understand why at this stage of Firefox development upgrades sometimes need to break things, but it’s still not okay to the average user.

Aggressively marketing Firefox before it is a completely stable product is dangerous. You’re running the risk of having people trying it out and being put off by the bugs, never again to return.

Other problems with the browser include…

• It doesn’ ;t entirely act like a native application on all platforms.

• Popup blocking is sometimes over-aggressive. Popups launched from a positive user action (like clicking a link) should ALWAYS work. This is a tough one to get right, I know. And don’t tell me about the whitelist. The average user isn’t going to add lots of entries to the whitelist.

• No “Go” buttons next to the address bar and search bar by default. Many, many users need a button to click. They don’t know that just hitting enter will do the trick. The Address bar and search fields are also too similar. “Why do I have two fields and shich one do I type ‘yahoo.com’ into so I can start using the Internet?” Yes, I know you can add the button, but if I need a button, there’s no way I’m going to be able to figure out how to do THAT.

• The launch problem in Windows ME needs to be solved. Yes, Windows ME sucks, but lots of people use it, and getting an error message everytime they click a URL shortcut in the OS is bad. Error messages are scary to the average user.

Firefox right now is very good for an experienced net user, but is not at all ready for the average person. If you plan on targeting the general public, you need to understand the general public.

Most Web users don’t know what a browser is. That blue E they click on the desktop isn’t a browser, it’s “The Internet.” Or maybe it’s “Yahoo” if that’s what their home page is set to. Tell them to download a new browser and they don’t understand what you mean. I put Firefox on my wife’s computer and removed the IE link. She asked why she didn’t have My Yahoo on the computer anymore. My wife’s not stupid — to her the IE logo is how she got to the Web. Without that, she didn’t know how to get to My Yahoo.

You’d be shocked how many people don’t understand what a URL is and what the address bar is for. When they need to go to a site, they close the browser, re-open it so they get the MSN or Yahoo home page, and enter the URL into the search box. How about integrating the address bar and the search field? If what I entered isn’t a URL, pass it to Google.

It’s time to stop thinking like developers and start thinking like users. For evidence that the Firefox team thinks like developers you don’t need to go any farther than the Firefox home page.

Firefox 0.9 is the award winning preview of Mozilla’s next generation browser.

What’s a preview? Does that mean I can’t use it. Is it like a demonstration or something? And what’s a next-generation browser? I thought this thing was supposed to help me use the Internet.

View more than one web page in a single window

You have to be a serious power user to appreciate that feature. Many people only have a single window open all the time anyway. If they need another window, they close the first one.

Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls.

What’s an activeX control? What’s spyware? All I want is to stop getting all those stupid programs I didn’t ask for.

Firefox is the most customizable browser on the planet.

There’s that browser word again. What is it? And why would I customize it? Does that mean that this won’t work when I get it? I’m going to have to work on it to get it working?

Use the adaptive search system to allow you to search an infinite number of engines.

Why are they talking about engines here? I though this was something for my internet, not my car.

The new Easy Transition system imports all of your settings - Favorites, passwords and other data from Internet Explorer and other browsers.

I don’t know what that means. Maybe if I get this thing, the way I use the Internet is going to change. All I want is a way to use the Internet without getting all that junk. I don’t want to have to change my passwords and stuff to do that.

Firefox comes with a standard set of developer tools including a powerful JavaScript and CSS error/warning console, and an optional Document Inspector that gives unheard of insight into how your pages work.

Uh-oh, now I know why I didn’t understand all that stuff. This thing’s something that programmers use.

Engineered Babies Save Lives, Destroy
Embryos

Engineered Babies Save Lives, Destroy
Embryos 03/13/2003 02:12 PM
An In-vitro fertilization company in Australia is criticizing the board of a Melbourne hospital for the long delays in granting approval for two separate designer babies during the last two years. These designer babies are being engineered specifically to provide healing stem cells for a sibling, from their umbilical cords. Last year, while waiting for a decision from the hospital, a local couple naturally conceived a genetically-matching son. His stem cells were recently implanted in his dying sister, who is inflicted with Fanconi's anaemia, and her fate should be known within a few weeks. The more recent delay has been over another couple's child, who is believed to have sickle-cell anemia. Authorities have sought opinions from theologians, ethicists, and reproductive scientists while debating yesterday's decision to approve the procedure, after a year of discussion and hearings.

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Lives, Destroy Embryos

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Microsoft to recommend 4-6GHz PC for
Longhorn

Microsoft to recommend 4-6GHz PC for
Longhorn 05/05/2004 01:22 AM
According to Microsoft Watch, the average system and driver requirements for Longhorn, the next major release of Windows, are: "a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today."...

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