Crucial Prayer Topics : Science & Bioethics

Iran on brink of nuclear weapon, warns watchdog
Telegraph - September 7, 2010

A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iranian nuclear scientists had made at least 22 kilograms of enriched uranium at least 20 per cent purity, a technical hurdle that is the hardest to overcome on the way to weapons-grade uranium....[view article]

Israeli breakthrough: Nano-vehicle targets cancer cells
The Jerusalem Post - September 6, 2010

Tel Aviv researchers develop new intravascular vehicle that selectively delivers a chemotherapy drug into tumors, sparing healthy cells....[view article]

Stephen Hawking Breaks Atheist Rules
Christian Newswire - September 3, 2010

MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- According to professor Stephen Hawking, God didn't create the universe. Instead, nothing created everything. However, according to the author of the book, Nothing Created Everything -- the scientific impossibility of atheistic evolution, Stephen Hawking has violated the basic laws of science. Ray Comfort created an international storm of angry protest from the atheist community in 2009, when he gave away 170,000 copies of Charles Darwin's On Origin of Species to 170,000 students...[view article]

Apple genome is cracked by geneticists
BBC - August 31, 2010

A team of 86 global scientists have sequenced the genome of the Golden Delicious apple for the first time....[view article]

Salmonella Found in Chicken Feed at 2 Iowa Egg Farms
AP - Associated Press - August 27, 2010

WASHINGTON -- Food and Drug Administration officials say they have found positive samples of salmonella that link two Iowa farms to a massive egg recall....[view article]

US-Israel space co-operation agreement strengthens already-strong ties
Flight Global - August 24, 2010

Obama's push to bring space exploration into the diplomatic arena has been boosted by the signing of a formal co-operation pact between NASA and the Israel Space Agency (ISA)....[view article]

China on 'natural progression' toward space
OneNewsNow.com - August 23, 2010

A national defense analyst and Pentagon advisor isn't surprised about communist China's plans to build their own space station....[view article]

Salmonella Outbreak: Illnesses linked to eggs will likely grow
The Washington Post - August 20, 2010

WASHINGTON -- A salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds and led to the recall of hundreds of millions of eggs from one Iowa firm will likely grow, federal health officials said Thursday....[view article]

Study Says Brain Trauma Can Mimic A.L.S.
The New York Times - August 18, 2010

In the 71 years since the Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig declared himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth," despite dying from a disease that would soon bear his name, he has stood as America's leading icon of athletic valor struck down by random, inexplicable fate....[view article]

Email is too slow and wristwatches are pointless for college freshmen
CNN - August 18, 2010

(CNN) -- For most college freshmen starting school this fall, email is passe and wearing a watch on your wrist is, well, unnecessary, according to the Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014, most of whom were born in 1992....[view article]

China tests space station module to launch in 2011
AP - Associated Press - August 18, 2010

BEIJING - China has finished the first module of a planned space station and is testing its electronics and other systems before launching it into orbit next year....[view article]

In Israel, Commerce amid Conflict
Time - August 17, 2010

The city of Nazareth - a town of 65,000 residents, bearing the weight of more than 2,000 years of history - sits at the southern end of Galilee, at the bottom of a sloping bowl formed out of a chalky mountain range that overlooks the Jezreel Valley. Not far from Nazareth's Byzantine-era ruins and the sites where Jesus is said to have once trod, you come upon something less historic: a dense, rubble-strewn industrial zone....[view article]

The Twitter Bible Keeps It Short and Sacred
AOL News - August 16, 2010

LONDON (Aug. 13) -- Chris Juby has set himself a task of truly biblical proportions: to summarize the 800,000-plus words in the Old and New Testaments in a series of snappy daily tweets....[view article]

Israel aims to be space superpower
The Huffington Post - August 13, 2010

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is set to approve an ambitious plan to turn Israel into a satellite superpower. According to details obtained by The Jerusalem Post, the aim is to increase sales of Israeli space platforms to nearly $8 billion a year....[view article]

Red Panda in Tenn.? Fossils Confirm Heritage
AOL News - August 10, 2010

It has the face of a giant panda bear and the body of a small raccoon. This unusual, cuddly-looking animal is the red panda, and until recently, was only believed to be native to the mountains of Nepal, Burma and China....[view article]

Scorching heat prompts warnings in 18 states
CNN - August 5, 2010

(CNN) -- Forecasters have issued advisories for at least 18 states Thursday as dangerous heat continues to scorch parts of the South, Midwest and the North....[view article]

Oil Spill Cleanup Workers Include Many Very, Very Small Ones
The New York Times - August 5, 2010

Among the hidden stars of the gulf cleanup is an oil-hungry bacterium that Dr. Seuss could have named - Alcanivorax. It and fellow microbes are breaking down a significant amount of the oil that gushed into the environment from BP's runaway well, scientists say. The microbial feasting is known as biodegradation....[view article]

U.S. dietary supplements often contaminated: report
Reuters - August 3, 2010

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many popular dietary supplements contain ingredients that may cause cancer, heart problems, liver or kidney damage, but U.S. stores sell them anyway and Americans spend millions on them, according to Consumer Reports....[view article]

Bad weather could hamper effort to seal oil well
CNN - July 22, 2010

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Bad weather may impact BP's attempts to create a permanent fix to the oil disaster, a BP official said Thursday....[view article]

Scientists Discover Most Massive Star Ever
Fox News - July 21, 2010

LONDON - A huge ball of brightly burning gas drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever discovered - hundreds of times more massive than the sun, scientists said Wednesday after working out its weight for the first time....[view article]

New Laser Weapon Blasts Spy Drones Out of the Sky
AOL News - July 20, 2010

(July 19) -- A U.S. defense company wants to take drone wars to a new level with a laser weapon capable of shooting down unmanned aircraft....[view article]

Scientists weighing new option for shutting down oil well
CNN - July 20, 2010

Washington (CNN) -- As tests continue Tuesday on BP's ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are weighing a new option for permanently sealing it....[view article]

Mini Nuclear Power Plants on the Way
On Watch in Washington - July 16, 2010

A San Francisco engineering company which has worked on more than half of the nuclear power stations in the U.S. is supporting an effort to build “the world’s first commercially viable, small modular nuclear power plants.” Bechtel Corp. is partnering with Babcock & Wilcox Co. in a move that “has the potential to be a real game changer,” according to Jack Futcher, president of Bechtel’s power business unit. The companies say the...[view article]

Report: Nuke Scientist Was Longtime CIA Informant in Iran
Fox News - July 16, 2010

The Iranian nuclear scientist who says he was abducted a year ago by U.S. agents was an informant for the CIA inside Iran for several years, The New York Times reported late Thursday, citing U.S. officials....[view article]

Nasa space shuttle firm to cut 1,000 jobs
BBC - July 7, 2010

The US's leading space contractor is to cut the jobs of more than 1,000 of the world's leading scientists and technicians after Nasa ended its space shuttle program....[view article]

Green machine: Cars could run on sunlight and CO2
New Scientist - July 6, 2010

Greenhouse-gas-pumping cars are, let's face it, never going to be green. But innovative sunlight-powered fuel production techniques could inch motor vehicles towards carbon neutrality....[view article]

NASA reschedules two final space shuttle launches
Breitbart - July 2, 2010

NASA said Thursday it was postponing the final two space shuttle launches before the program is phased out, citing a delay in needed equipment....[view article]

Hurricane could suspend oil capping for two weeks
CNN - July 2, 2010

(CNN) -- Oil could flow unrestricted for two weeks into the Gulf of Mexico if a hurricane moved toward the BP oil spill, according to a timeline from Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who's managing the federal government's response to the disaster....[view article]

Scientists Identify Genes For 'Extreme Longevity'
AOL News - July 1, 2010

(July 1) -- One hundred-year-old Lorna Gobey credits Guinness, cigarettes and a good game of bingo for her remarkable longevity, while Walter Breuning, still robust at 113 years, relies on a daily combination of two meals, a single aspirin and one long walk....[view article]

New Space Policy Calls for Global Cooperation
Wall Street Journal - June 28, 2010

The Obama administration as early as Monday is expected to call for significantly greater international cooperation than ever before in outer space, covering a wide range of civilian and national-security programs....[view article]

Fight Breaks Out Between Vaccine Firms
Wall Street Journal - June 28, 2010

WASHINGTON- Two pharmaceutical companies are engaged in a pitched battle-replete with name-calling, hefty lobbying, and Capitol Hill intrigue-over a government contract to supply anthrax vaccine in the U.S....[view article]

Federal Court of Appeal Reinstates Case Against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to Stop Federal Funding of Research Involving the Destruction of Living Human Embryos
Christian Newswire - June 25, 2010

WASHINGTON, June 25 /Christian Newswire/ -- Today the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its decision finding that doctors doing adult stem cell research have 'competitive standing' to sue. Therefore, the court reinstated the doctors' federal lawsuit, filed last summer that seeks to preliminarily enjoin and ultimately overturn the controversial guidelines for public funding of embryonic stem cell research that the National Institutes of Health issued on July 7, 2009. The implementation of these guidelines...[view article]

Judge rules against Obama's deep-water drilling moratorium
LA Times - June 22, 2010

Reporting from Atlanta and Los Angeles -A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the federal government acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in imposing the halt....[view article]

Merely Human? That's So Yesterday
The New York Times - June 14, 2010

ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen....[view article]

Sane Solution to Clean up the Oil: Suck It Up
The Huffington Post - June 14, 2010

These harrowing pictures of birds covered in oil are so totally depressing it's hard to imagine this spill is going to be our nation's wake up call. But that was an idea posited on KCRW's Which Way LA....[view article]

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Reaches Orbit on First Flight (Update1)
Business Week - June 4, 2010

June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Space Exploration Technologies Inc., a company at the center of President Barack Obama's plan to reshape NASA, launched into Earth orbit a new rocket designed to take cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station....[view article]

Four Moral Issues Sharply Divide Americans
Gallop.com - May 31, 2010

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans generally agree about the morality of 12 out of 16 behaviors or social policies that sometimes spark public controversy, with sizable majorities saying each is either "morally acceptable" or "morally wrong." By contrast, views on doctor-assisted suicide, gay and lesbian relations, abortion, and having a baby outside of marriage are closely divided -- the percentage supporting and the percentage opposing are within 15 points of each other....[view article]

More Americans 'Pro-Life' Than 'Pro-Choice' for First Time
Gallop.com - May 31, 2010

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion and 42% "pro-choice." This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995....[view article]

Atlantis set to return from final space mission
CNN - May 26, 2010

(CNN) -- Space shuttle Atlantis is set to land Wednesday morning, ending the orbiter's stellar 25-year career....[view article]

RFID chip implanted into man gets computer virus
BBC - May 26, 2010

Researchers have found that implanted identity chips can pick up computer viruses. Reading University's Mark Gasson conducted an experiment to show how radio frequency identity (RFID) chips could become electronically infected....[view article]

Scientists Create Synthetic Organism
Wall Street Journal - May 21, 2010

Heralding a potential new era in biology, scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, researchers at the private J. Craig Venter Institute announced Thursday....[view article]

Shuttle survey stalled as NASA watches space junk
My Way News - May 16, 2010

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts on space shuttle Atlantis are struggling with a camera-pointing problem as they speed toward the International Space Station. The astronauts were supposed to start surveying their ship Saturday morning for any signs of damage from launch debris. But they could not move the laser sensors and TV camera on the end of the 100-foot inspection boom....[view article]

Genetic Testing Kit to Hit Drugstore Shelves
AOL News - May 11, 2010

(May 11) -- Some 6,000 drug stores in the U.S. will begin selling a genetic testing kit Friday, marking a milestone in access to the rapidly evolving world of personalized, DNA-based medical care....[view article]

Fungal Disease Spreads Through Pacific Northwest
NPR.org - May 3, 2010

A rare and dangerous fungal infection named Cryptococcus gattii has been quietly spreading from British Columbia southward to the U.S. Pacific Northwest. And it's changing as it goes....[view article]

The Surprising Strengths Of The Middle-Aged Brain
NPR.org - April 27, 2010

Barbara Strauch started having senior moments a few years ago. "I [went] downstairs to try to get paper towels [and] by the time I got down there I couldn't remember what I went down there for," she says. "It was driving me crazy. I couldn't remember what I had for breakfast or the movie I saw last weekend. And you know, we all have a lot going on in our lives, but I think there was sort of a qualitative...[view article]

Space Shuttle Discovery Lands in Florida
Fox News - April 20, 2010

With a smooth touchdown and a safe parachute deployment, Discovery and its seven astronauts landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:08 a.m., where clear skies rather than ground fog greeted the astronaut crew....[view article]

Science Raises Questions About Engineered Babies
AOL News - April 19, 2010

(April 16) -- As scientists begin to master the intricacies of human reproduction and the complexities of the genome, they're making astounding progress in genetic engineering -- tinkering with embryonic cells to change the outcome of a human life....[view article]

Surge of Enthusiasm Greets US Offshore Power Study
AOL News - April 6, 2010

(April 5) -- A new wind is blowing in, stirring up the scientific, media and business communities with its powerful implications for the U.S. energy supply: limitless, renewable, clean electricity that's capable of powering the entire Eastern Seaboard....[view article]

The Obama Health Care Rationing Law:
National Right to Life - April 6, 2010

An 18-member "Independent Payment Advisory Board" [Sec. 10320(b)] is given the duty, on January 15, 2015 and every two years thereafter, with regard to private health care, to make "recommendations to slow the growth in national health expenditures . . ....[view article]

Obsession With Nanotech Growth Stymies Regulators
AOL News - March 26, 2010

(March 24) -- When the United States government formally acknowledged the world-changing potential of nanotechnology a decade ago, it was decided that America should lead the way. Almost immediately, 25 different federal agencies began scrambling to find uses for the engineered particles in medicine, energy, transport, weapons, protective devices and food, as well as thousands more real and dreamed-about applications....[view article]

Potential new source for biofuel found
UPI - March 10, 2010

YORK, England, March 10 (UPI) -- British scientists say they've discovered a mechanism that might lead to a new way of converting wood and straw into liquid biofuels....[view article]

African American Leaders Outraged at Attacks on Congressman Franks
Christian Newswire - March 1, 2010

ATLANTA, March 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- When U. S. Congressman Trent Franks spoke about communities where over fifty percent of the abortions performed are on black women, abortion proponents called him a liar, again attempting to divert the attention away from the question of the abortion industry's targeting Blacks for abortion and onto mathematical analysis of whether he correctly divided the numbers. African American leaders are outraged....[view article]

Full Undercover Video Released of WI Planned Parenthood Covering Up Child Sex Abuse
Christian Newswire - March 1, 2010

MILWAUKEE, March 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- Live Action has made public the full, unedited video from an undercover investigation released last week of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Milwaukee, WI. The footage shows clinic staff counseling a purportedly 14-year-old statutory rape victim not to tell anyone about her 31-year-old "boyfriend" and coaching her how to obtain an abortion without her parents' consent....[view article]

Closing the New Frontier
TownHall.com - February 12, 2010

WASHINGTON -- "We have an agreement until 2012 that Russia will be responsible for this," says Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency, about ferrying astronauts from other countries into low-Earth orbit. "But after that? Excuse me, but the prices should be absolutely different then!"...[view article]

Scientists Rebuild Iceman Genome From Hair Sample
AOL News - February 11, 2010

(Feb. 11) - An international team of scientists has rebuilt the genome of an ancient human for the first time. The man, dubbed Inuk, was a Palaeo-Eskimo who lived about 4,000 years ago on the western coast of Greenland....[view article]

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AOL News - February 2, 2010

(Feb. 2) - The United States, China and dozens of other countries have submitted pledges to limit greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 - the first hurdle required in a voluntary pact set up at last year's U.N. climate change summit in Copenhagen....[view article]

Invasive Asian Carp Inspire Lawsuits, Extreme Archery
- December 30, 2009

(Dec. 29) -- They're the "nuclear bombs" of American waterways. That's the analogy Michigan attorney general Mike Cox has drawn for the Asian carp, which is rapidly taking over stretches of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers -- so rapidly, in fact, that his state is now seeking a legal injunction to help prevent the carp from invading the Great Lakes. Cox's hope is that the courts accomplish what science could not: A recent experiment with poison in the Chicago river...[view article]

Water from Hadera desalination plant enters National Water Carrier
The Jerusalem Post - December 24, 2009

The latest desalination plant began pumping water into the National Water Carrier on Wednesday, Mekorot, the national water company announced....[view article]

Morality Without God?
TownHall.com - November 12, 2009

Confirmation of biblical wisdom came earlier this fall from an unlikely source: an Ivy League savant who says it's wrong to depend on the Bible....[view article]

Judge Allows Constitutional Challenge to Human Gene Patents
Law.com - November 5, 2009

Opponents of patenting human gene sequences were handed a rare court victory Monday, when a federal judge refused to dismiss a suit challenging patents for two genes tied to cancers in women....[view article]

New Health Bill Posted - 2000 page document
docs.house.gov - October 30, 2009

Type the intro here if you are linking to another story, otherwise paste the entire story here and leave the url blank. The website will display a maximum of 80 words for the introduction. If you are pasting from Word use the word pasteboard icon....[view article]

Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close
AP - Associated Press - October 30, 2009

CHICAGO - The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day....[view article]

Congressman Says He Now Has ‘About 40 Likeminded Democrats’ Who Will Vote to Kill Health Bill if He Doesn’t Get Floor Vote on Pro-Life Amendment
CNS News - October 26, 2009

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) told CNSNews.com yesterday that he has organized a group of "about 40 likeminded Democrats" who will vote to kill the health-care bill if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) does not allow a floor vote on his amendment to prohibit federal funds from going to insurance plans that cover abortion....[view article]

President Obama declares H1N1 flu a national emergency
The Washington Post - October 24, 2009

President Obama Saturday declared the H1N1 flu a national emergency, clearing the way for legal waivers to allow hospitals and doctors offices to better handle a surge of new patients....[view article]

CDC shocker: Swine Flu killing young people at surprising rate
Examiner.com - October 20, 2009

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have confirmed what public health officials have been saying for some time. The Swine Flu, pandemic H1N1, is unusually deadly for young people in the United States....[view article]

U.S. to Issue New Policy on Medical-Marijuana Use
Wall Street Journal - October 19, 2009

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration won't seek to arrest medical-marijuana users and suppliers as long as they closely conform to state laws....[view article]

Clean Coal Using Plasma Furnaces
Christian Newswire - October 19, 2009

FREDERICK, MD, Sept. 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- The United States is often called the Saudi Arabia of coal. Up to now, burning coal to generate electric power has created pollution harmful to our environment, damaging to our health, and that might contribute to climate change. Well, that's about to change. Plasma furnaces can retrofit old coal-burning electric power plants so that they meet strict new EPA requirements....[view article]

White House, Top Democrats Begin Herculean Task of Merging Health Reform Bills
Fox News - October 14, 2009

With all five congressional health care bills making it out of committee, the White House and top Democrats must merge the different bills into versions that can pass in the House and the Senate, even as the Congressional Budget Office admits it can't confirm whether the legislation will save Americans a dime....[view article]

Is the Pill in Control of Your Romance?
ABC News - October 8, 2009

Science tells us that humans have evolved over the years to make better decisions about whom to choose as a spouse, but a growing body of research suggests that women could undo all that evolution with a simple pill many are already taking....[view article]

Poll: Abortion opposition grows
USA TODAY - October 5, 2009

More than four in 10 Americans favor making an abortion more difficult to have, up 6 percentage points from 2007, according to a poll released today by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The poll found that 45% of Americans favor making abortion illegal in most or all cases, up 4 percentage points from last year....[view article]

Shuttle Astronaut Returns to Earth with Piece of Missionary History
Christian Newswire - October 5, 2009

NAMPA, Idaho, Oct. 5 /Christian Newswire/ -- After a two-week journey of more than 5.7 million miles around the earth, astronaut Patrick Forrester and fellow space shuttle Discovery crew members landed safely on Sept. 11 at Edwards Air Force Base in California with a piece of missionary history. Forrester is available for interviews about the shuttle mission and his heart for Christian missionary service. The item, part of an airplane battery box, comes from martyred missionary pilot Nate Saint's Piper PA-14,...[view article]

Americans Don't Want Government-Funded Abortions In Health Reform
Fox News - October 5, 2009

If the president's plan goes forward, checks will be written to abortionists and to health insurers covering abortions. Those checks will draw funds from one place: the treasury of the United States of America. Yet over half of Americans (women included) say it is wrong for the government to pay for abortions....[view article]

Scientists Report Finding Water on Moon
VOA News - September 25, 2009

An international team of scientists has reported finding evidence of water on the moon.Researchers led by Dr. Carle Pieters of Brown University announced the results at a NASA news conference on Thursday....[view article]

NASA finds ice on the moon and on Mars
Reuters - September 24, 2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - International space missions have found ice on the moon and more evidence of ice on Mars - good news for future settlements and also for scientists looking for extraterrestrial life....[view article]

'End of the World' Myths Dupe Millions
Christian Newswire - September 21, 2009

NEWPORT, Wash., Sept. 21 /Christian Newswire/ -- These are scary times. "Will the U.S. dollar collapse?" "Will there be a global economic meltdown?" "Will swine flu explode out of control?" "What about Iranian threats against Israel, terrorist nukes, and Al-Queda plots against the west?" These are only some of the questions causing inquiring minds to wonder whether this ancient Bible verse is now being fulfilled: "Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming...[view article]

The Role of Art in the Genetic Age
Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity - September 4, 2009

Art has always played several roles in society, including that of commentator on social events and trends. For example, Jonathan Swift's satires, while entertaining, simultaneously critiqued those in power. Art also plays the role of underscoring what is important in a society or to the artist. The Sistine Chapel demonstrates the awe and wonder that Michelangelo and his society had for God....[view article]

Federal suit challenges stem cell funding guidelines
Baptist Press News - August 28, 2009

WASHINGTON (BP) -- The Obama administration's guidelines for federal funding of stem cell research that results in the destruction of human embryos have been challenged in court, and a lawyer behind the suit says he thinks its "chances are very good."...[view article]

Synthetic Life By the Year's End? Yes, Proclaims Craig Venter.
Discover Magazine - August 27, 2009

Although scientists may not have come close to cataloging all the different kinds of life on the planet, genetics pioneer Craig Venter is pressing ahead with his plans to create biology version 2.0. Venter is at the forefront of the new field of synthetic biology, in which scientists try to create all new organisms out of their component genetic parts: "We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it" [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette], Venter has said. Now, he and his colleagues...[view article]

WH Panel Warns of Major Swine Flu Outbreak
CBN News - August 18, 2009

WASHINGTON -- A special White House panel is warning the country to prepare for a swine flu outbreak. The government is working on a vaccine, but it may not be ready in time. Worst case scenario from the White House panel: the H1N1 flu virus infects half the country, putting almost 2 million Americans in the hospital and possibly causing 30,000 to 90,000 deaths. Around 36,000 people die from the flu in an average year. Certain parts of the population...[view article]

FDA Delays Geron's Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Trials, Seeks Data
LifeNews.com - August 18, 2009

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Food and Drug Administration is delaying a bid by biotech company Geron to become the first to conduct human trials with embryonic stem cells. The move is drawing applause from pro-life advocates who oppose the use of the cells because they involve the destruction of human life to obtain....[view article]

A New Therapy on Faith and Sexual Identity
Wall Street Journal - August 6, 2009

The men who seek help from evangelical counselor Warren Throckmorton often are deeply distressed. They have prayed, read Scripture, even married, but they haven't been able to shake sexual attractions to other men -- impulses they believe to be immoral. Dr. Throckmorton is a psychology professor at a Christian college in Pennsylvania and past president of the American Mental Health Counselors Association. He specializes in working with clients conflicted about their sexual identity....[view article]

Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions
Fox News - July 21, 2009

John Holdren, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, considered compulsory abortions and other Draconian measures to shrink the human population in a 1977 science textbook.  ...[view article]

Georgia Law First in Nation to Govern Embryo Adoption
LifeSiteNews.com - July 7, 2009

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A state bill that came into effect July 1 has made Georgia the first in the nation with a law governing the adoption of embryos produced by in-vitro fertilization (IVF). HB388 dictates the legal ramifications of a couple's bid to adopt excess embryos created during the IVF procedure of another couple, aligning the process more closely to the state's laws regarding the adoption of older children....[view article]

Biologist Venter aims to create life from scratch
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - June 29, 2009

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Biologist J. Craig Venter once raced the U.S. government to complete the decoding of the human genome. Now, after a maverick career studying the code of life, Dr. Venter has a new goal: life itself....[view article]

Obama To Loosen Stem Cell Funding
The Washington Post - March 7, 2009

President Obama's decision to lift restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, scheduled to be announced Monday, is expected to provide a major boost to one of the most promising but controversial fields of biomedical research in generations....[view article]