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| The Pontifical Council for Culture and the international biopharmaceutical company NeoStern Inc have announced a joint initiative to expand research and raise awareness of adult stem cell therapies. A joint statement released late last month by the Vatican says: “As part of the collaboration, NeoStern and the pontifical council will make efforts to develop educational programmes, publications and academic courses with an interdisciplinary approach for theological and philosophical faculties, including those of bioethics, around the world. One of the initiatives will be a three-day international conference at the Vatican on adult stem cell research, including VSEL technology (which uses very small embryonic-like stem cells).” | |
| Science | Catholic South West, June 2010 |
| Morality is natural not nurtured, a new scientific study in America has revealed. Psychologists at the Infant Cognition Centre of Yale University in Connecticut have published findings which show babies making moral judgments from six months old. | |
| Science | The Church Of England Newspaper, Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| The creation of embryos with three genetic parents – hailed by scientists at Newcastle University as “a very exciting development with immense potential” – is ruthless exploitation of human life and makes misleading claims, according to a leading ethicist. Although it has been promoted as a process which gives women with genetic problems the chance to have a child free of inherited disease, it is not ethical, has no guarantee of success and is quite possibly being carried out on unaffected embryos, according to Josephine Quintavalle. “This is ruthless genetic manipulation of human life in a convoluted and outrageous process,” she said. | |
| Science | The Universe, Sunday April 25, 2010 |
| A giant dome containing a rainforest ecosystem is to be built as a part of a £225 million transformation of Britain’s most popular zoo. Chester Zoo aims to become Europe’s largest conservation, animal and leisure attraction by 2018. The plans, given the working title National Vision, will involve building the £90 million Heart of Africa attraction- a domed ecosystem covering 138 acres. | |
| Science | The Sentinel - 27th January 2009 |
| Healthy mice have been cloned for the first time from frozen bodies kept in deep freeze for 16 years. The breakthrough increases the posibility of resurrecting extinct animals such as mammoths from their frozen remains. Until now dolly the sheep style cloning has only been achieved using live donor celss. | |
| Science | The Sentinel – November 4th |
| The general secretary of the Christian Medical Fellowship has criticised the decision by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority to grant licences to scientists who want to use human-animal hybrid embryos in research. Dr Peter Saunders said that ‘researchers in Japan and the USA have now produced embryonic-like stem cells from human skin cells’, meaning that animal-human hybrids were not only unethical but also ‘simply unnecessary’ | |
| Science | War Cry 26th January 2008 |
| A British student described today how he discovered a previously unknown dinosaur species during a trip to the museum. Mike Taylor spotted and unusual looking bone while researching for his PhD in the National History Museum collections. It turned out to be part of he backbone from a dinosaur 140 million years ago. | |
| Science | The Sentinel - 15th November 2007 |
| The fertility regulator is expected to give British scientists the go-ahead today for the creation of human-animal embryos for research. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority will announce its decision on the controversial plan which scientists say will pave the way for therapies for diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. A consultation paper published by the HFEA showed the public was mostly “at ease” with the proposals. Researchers want to create hybrid embryos by merging human cells with animal eggs. | |
| Science | The Sentinel - 5th September 2007 |
| Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork in a laboratory by stimulating the feeding cells. Researchers at Utrecht University hope to end the need to slaughter animals and at the same time help the environment by freeing land used for farming. | |
| Science | Evangelical Times - July 2007 |
| An Earth like planet that could be covered in oceans and may support life has been discovered outside the Solar System. The new world, which is 20.5 light years away, orbits a region with the right temperature to allow liquid water on its surface. Scientists believe it is only 1.5 times larger and five times more massive than Earth making it the smallest extra-solar planet known. | |
| Science | The Sentinel - 25th April 2007 |
| Chinese scientists claim to have successfully bred partially green fluorescent pigs which they hope will boost stem cell research. Boffins at Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin claim to have bred three transgenic pigs by injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs. | |
| Science | The Sentinel – 2nd January 2007 |
| The number of experiments on animals carried out in the UK rose by 41,300 last year to 2,896,000. The 1.4% increase on the previous 12 months was revealed in Home Office statistics. | |
| Science | The Sentinel – 25th July 2006 |
| A study has confirmed that women with early breast cancer benefit from taking the new drug Arimidex. Switching to the Arimidex after two years of treatment with the standard treatment Tamoxifen improves event free survival for post-menopausal women, researchers said today. | |
| Science | The Sentinel - 5th August 2005 |
| On 15th December 2004 the eye of a giant storm passed over a set of scientific gauges on the seabed of the Gulf of Mexico. The instruments measured the size of the waves created by Hurricane Ivan as it headed towards the American coast. A study published today in the journal Science reveals that the Hurricane created waves measuring at least 90 feet (30m) from crest to trough – the tallest and most extreme open-ocean waves ever recorded by modern instruments. | |
| Science | The Independent - 5th August 2005 |
| A study in 1966 showed that 60 per cent of scientists either disbelieved or were doubtful about God, and the percentage goes up if you look at the most elite scientist. | |
| Science | Evangelicals now - September 2004 |
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