News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Stem Cells"
Assisted Same-Sex Reproduction: The Promise of Haploid Stem Cells?
Same-sex couples, not unlike their heterosexual counterparts, would prefer having a genetically related child. However, assisted same-sex human reproduction has heretofore been deemed infeasible absent haploid cellular analogs of human…
Creating eggs and sperm from stem cells: the next big thing in assisted reproduction?
[...] We are already in an age of disruptive reproductive technologies. Babies have been born using mitochondrial replacement techniques, often known as three-parent babies. News of mice born to same-sex parents…
Sessions of the GSCN Working Groups
From the article: At the 6th GSCN Annual Conference, Tobias Cantz (Hannover) and Sara Gerke (Cambridge, USA) organized a Symposium on Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) of stem cell…
The Second Reproductive Revolution: Glenn Cohen delivers chair lecture
From the article: Technology is changing reproduction, says Professor I. Glenn Cohen ’03, one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law. In…
The Science and Ethics of Chimera Research: Part of the Ethics Frontiers Seminar Series
Description Stem cell-based human/animal chimera research involves the transfer of human stem cells into animal hosts at various stages of development. The purpose of this research is to introduce…
Regulation of Stem Cell Therapy Travel
From the abstract: Purpose of Review Stem cell therapies (hereinafter: SCT) hold tremendous promise for the treatment of a variety of diseases. Yet, alongside the medical potential, they pose significant…
REPORT: Ethical Issues Related to the Creation of Synthetic Human Embryos
Report Summary Authored by Robert D. Truog, MD (Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School) and Melissa J. Lopes, JD (Harvard University Office of the Vice Provost for Research) The Harvard…
Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications
Order through MIT Press and receive 30% off using discount code MSPECIMEN30: Order now! This edited volume stems from a conference in 2015 that brought together leading experts to address key ethical…
Babies From Skin Cells? Prospect Is Unsettling to Some Experts
From the article: Three prominent academics in medicine and law sounded an alarm about the possible consequences in a paper published this year. “I.V.G. may raise the…
Addressing the ethical issues raised by synthetic human entities with embryo-like features
On November 7, 2016, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted the conference "The Ethics of Early Embryo Research & the Future of the 14-Day Rule," which convened experts in bioethics, stem cell research, embryology,…
FULL REPORT AVAILABLE: The Ethics of Early Embryo Research & the Future of the 14-Day Rule
Couldn't join us for the event? Read the full report! "Ethical Issues Related to the Creation of Synthetic Human Embryos" Check out presenters' slides from the event and recent…
Professor offers basics of bioethics and the law in 90 minutes: Harvard expert breaks down complex topic for Ed Portal and online audience
On September 13, 2016, Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen delivered a lecture at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of his online EdX course "Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of…
Is Medical Tourism Ethical?: Profile of I. Glenn Cohen's work as a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar
Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen served as a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar, Class of 2015. The Greenwall Foundation recently published a profile of Cohen's project, "Is Medical Tourism Ethical?": …
The FDA is prohibited from going germline
Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen has co-authored a new article in Science magazine addressing recent legislation preventing the FDA from approving any research "in which a human embryo is…
Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications
An edited volume based on this conference is due out from MIT Press in September 2017. Check it out! Learn more about the presentations - check out some of our speakers'…
Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics
Live Webstream Watch the event live online! Description Medical tourism is a growing, multi-billion dollar industry involving millions of patients who travel abroad each year to get health care. Some…
Law Professor Discusses Medical Tourism
When most people hear the word “tourism,” they immediately think of flocking to the sandy beaches of the Caribbean or exploring museums in a European city. For Harvard…
Emerging Issues and New Frontiers for FDA Regulation
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Food and Drug Law Institute were pleased to announce this collaborative academic symposium. Agenda: …
Video Now Available: What is Life?: The Science and Ethics of Making New Life in the Laboratory
How has knowledge of the human genome transformed the biological sciences? How should we assess the promises, perils, and ethics of creating new organisms in the laboratory? Eric S. Lander …
What is Life?: The Science and Ethics of Making New Life in the Laboratory
Registration is required in order to attend this event. Please register here. How has knowledge of the human genome transformed the biological sciences? How should we assess the promises, perils,…
Stem Cell Therapies: Opportunities for Ensuring the Quality and Safety of Clinical Offerings
Stem cells offer tremendous promise for advancing health and medicine. Whether being used to replace damaged cells and organs or else by supporting the body's intrinsic repair mechanisms, stem…
Health Law Workshop: Hank Greely
Presentation Download excerpts from Hank Greely's new book, The End of Sex: The Future of Human Reproduction, here. About the Presenter Hank Greely is Director for the Center for…
An Interview with I. Glenn Cohen on Law and Bioscience
There are huge changes taking place in the world of biosciences, and whether it's new discoveries in stem cell research, new reproductive technologies, or genetics being used to make…
Health Law Year in P/Review
Couldn't attend in person? Learn more about the event: Learn more about the presentations - check out select speakers' slides below! Watch the video of this conference online! (See…
Now Available: Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives
Bioethical Prescriptions collects Frances M. Kamm's articles on bioethics, which have appeared over the last twenty-five years and which have made her among the most influential philosophers in this…
Announcing the New Journal of Law and the Biosciences
The Petrie-Flom Center and Harvard Law School are delighted to announce our partnership with Duke University, Stanford University, and Oxford University Press to launch a new peer-reviewed, open access, online…
VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE: Stem Cell Therapies:: Opportunities for Assuring the Quality and Safety of Unregulated Clinical Offerings
Stem cells hold tremendous potential to advance health and medicine. Through replacement of damaged cells and organs or supporting intrinsic repair, stem cell offer promising treatments for debilitating diseases and…
Stem Cell Therapy and Medical Tourism: Of Promise and Peril?
Experimental breakthroughs within the field of regenerative medicine are reported in the media on a daily basis worldwide. Despite this progress, the overwhelming majority of clinical problems for which stem…
Current and Future Regulation of Stem Cell Research
In previous years, the regulation of stem cell research has been a politically controversial topic. However the change from the Bush to the Obama administration presented potentially substantial changes in…
A Debate on Human Dignity and Bioethics
With the advance of medical technologies and the increasing power over life and death that they afford, discussions of “human dignity” have begun to take a more central…