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Editorials Titles (by date)

California's Stem Cell Gold Rush  Dec 15, 2004
Stem-cell research will now proceed; the issue is how  Dec 14, 2004
California votes for embryonic stem cell research  Dec 13, 2004
The Wisdom of a 'Creepy Solution'  Dec 09, 2004
Spinning out of control - Researchers should beware of 'public relations' screens that are anything but helpful to science communication  Dec 09, 2004
Where theology matters  Dec 09, 2004
Cloning around  Dec 06, 2004
A U.S.-U.K. stem-cell connection  Dec 06, 2004
The wisdom of the Costa Rican resolution  Nov 16, 2004
Attack on adult stem cells  Nov 12, 2004
The stem-cell state  Nov 11, 2004
Stem-cell vote blurs religion-based politics  Nov 09, 2004
The stem cell dilemma: PRO: Proceed with research, but cautiously  Nov 06, 2004
The stem cell dilemma: CON: Slippery slope leads down to moral abyss  Nov 06, 2004
California to the Rescue  Nov 05, 2004
California Vote Brings Windfall For Stem Cells   Nov 04, 2004
Good eggs - There is no place for ageism in reproductive medicine  Nov 04, 2004
When parents deserve the right to choose  Nov 02, 2004
Fighting disease at source  Nov 02, 2004
To screen or not to screen - A medical breakthrough in genetics and an ethical dilemma  Nov 01, 2004
Does the UN vote on cloning matter?   Oct 21, 2004
In defence of human reproductive cloning  Oct 21, 2004
Going public  Oct 21, 2004
A Cloning Compromise That Works  Oct 20, 2004
The hard cell question   Oct 17, 2004
Prop. 71 a risky experiment in squandering public monies  Oct 17, 2004
A Promising Cloning Proposal  Oct 15, 2004
Neuroscience and Neuroethics  Oct 15, 2004
No doubting Reeve's courage, but question his convictions  Oct 14, 2004
California dreaming  Oct 14, 2004
California dreaming  Oct 14, 2004
Futures of artificial life - Researchers involved in synthetic biology need to take steps to engage more with the public  Oct 07, 2004
Futures of artificial life  Oct 07, 2004
Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report Summarizes Opinion Pieces on California's Stem Cell Research Ballot Initiative  Sep 30, 2004
Time to advance stem-cell research   Sep 30, 2004
Keep genome data freely accessible  Sep 25, 2004
California's Stem Cell Challenge  Sep 23, 2004
Time to look to the future  Sep 23, 2004
Better to be talked about...  Sep 16, 2004
Dividing the cloning divide  Sep 03, 2004
Politics, morals and embryos - Can bioethics in the United States rise above politics?  Sep 02, 2004
The Democrats embrace the gospel of stem cells  Aug 30, 2004
Rover Is Not Replaceable -- Forget Cloning  Aug 28, 2004
Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report Summarizes Opinion Pieces on Debate Over Embryonic Stem Cell Research  Aug 24, 2004
Rely on science, not rhetoric  Aug 24, 2004
Stem-cell policy moderately wrong - Why didn't Bush outright prohibit the research, if he truly believed destroying embryos is killing?  Aug 24, 2004
Senseless on Stem Cells - Why advocate research that destroys nascent human beings?  Aug 23, 2004
Stem-cell solution: Get politics out of the way  Aug 18, 2004
Current policy on stem cells has no good defense  Aug 17, 2004
Stem cells - Nothing can justify arbitrary, unreasoning restrictions on federal support for embryonic research aimed at reducing human suffering  Aug 17, 2004
Why Lines Must Be Drawn - Stem cells present a complex moral issue. Shame on Democrats for polarizing it  Aug 16, 2004
Dance of the Stem Cells  Aug 15, 2004
Stem Cell Battles  Aug 15, 2004
Research promises to cure diseases if religion recognizes cells can be extracted before life begins  Aug 15, 2004
Stem-cell policy: a stark choice  Aug 13, 2004
We should clone this U.K. policy  Aug 12, 2004
No controversy with adult stem cells  Aug 10, 2004
Bush's Obstructionism  Aug 09, 2004
Bush Must Reverse Miserly Policy On Stem Cell Research Funding  Aug 09, 2004
Cell wars  Aug 08, 2004
Stem Cell Stumping  Aug 04, 2004
Party of Stem Cells - The Democrats' new wedge issue  Aug 03, 2004
Beware the push for human cloning  Jul 31, 2004
Gender crisis not an accurate prediction  Jul 31, 2004
Don't Clone Ron Reagan's Agenda - Who cares about real Parkinson's patients when there's a Brave New World to sell?   Jul 28, 2004
Having faith in judgement of embryology watchdog  Jul 25, 2004
Designer babies are not wicked: abortions are, thoug  Jul 23, 2004
Are we on the genetic slippery slope? No, say doctors specialising in reproductive medicine. Saviour siblings are just the logical next step  Jul 22, 2004
A matter of life and death   Jul 06, 2004
Unlock the Potential of Stem Cell Research  Jul 06, 2004
Treatment or treats?  Jul 02, 2004
Cloning battles focus on cure versus disaster   Jun 28, 2004
Get a consensus on cloning research  Jun 28, 2004
Cloning human embryos  Jun 27, 2004
The lure of the lurid  Jun 24, 2004
'We've lost so much time already'  Jun 18, 2004
Time for a Change on Stem Cell Research  Jun 14, 2004
A case for cloning - This vital research can save lives   Jun 13, 2004
Precaution versus principles  Jun 10, 2004
The other stem cells  Jun 08, 2004
A Fitting Tribute to Mr. Reagan  Jun 08, 2004
Reagan's Next Victory  Jun 07, 2004
For: Stem research is legal, useful  Jun 06, 2004
Nancy Reagan's compromise  Jun 06, 2004
A Bad Investment  Jun 04, 2004
The False Controversy of Stem Cells - If you think it through, the case for embryonic research is an easy one...  May 31, 2004
Stem Cells: A Way Forward - A new report provides some moral guidelines  May 31, 2004
Rethink restrictions: Stem cell research funding needs to be expanded  May 26, 2004
Inflated Promise, Distorted Facts - As senators make moves, a walk through the stem-cell fray  May 25, 2004
The Stem Cell Cover-Up  May 25, 2004
Rethinking Stem-Cell Research  May 24, 2004
Dilemma over stem cells  May 23, 2004
Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report Summarizes Editorials About Pressure on Bush To Change Stem Cell Policy  May 19, 2004
Rescuing stem cells beats alternatives  May 18, 2004
Where ignorance is bliss  May 18, 2004
A brave new Bill?  May 17, 2004
Publicly financed research would add ethical controls  May 13, 2004
Republicans for Stem Cell Research  May 11, 2004
Cloning Scientist Rebuffs Nature Journal's Claim  May 09, 2004
Ethics of therapeutic cloning - A moment of triumph for South Korean science appears to have been marred by doubts about lab practice  May 06, 2004
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad embryonic kill bill  May 04, 2004
No genotype left untreated  May 04, 2004
Lost Your Little Boy? We'll Make Another  May 02, 2004
'Godsend' no blessing for cloning research - Hollywood clunker spreads fear and misinformation  Apr 30, 2004
Sausalito company's cloning of pets brings up ethical questions  Apr 24, 2004
Mouse made by two mothers raises questions  Apr 22, 2004
Hello Kitty or Frankenpet?   Apr 20, 2004
The Kass Council's Ex-Friends  Apr 20, 2004
The Doctor Is In - The head of the president's bioethics commission on assisted reproduction, cloning, council critics & more  Apr 05, 2004
Bioethics Council's Suggestions May Break Cloning Deadlock  Apr 05, 2004
Bioethics and Reproduction  Apr 04, 2004
Science and the Bush Administration - Breaking the policy deadlock on cloning and assisted reproduction  Apr 04, 2004
This Isn't About Cloning  Apr 02, 2004
Time to End the Embryonic Stem Cell Ban - Bush's flimsy funding policy is hurting promising research and real people  Apr 02, 2004
My little brother on drugs - A point/counterpoint on hGH treatment  Apr 01, 2004
Reproductive Wrongs  Apr 01, 2004
Reproduction and Responsibility  Apr 01, 2004
The identity clinic. Happiness has become the goal of medicine - and it will make us miserable   Mar 27, 2004
Think Again: Misreporting Stem Cell Research  Mar 25, 2004
When exactly does life begin?  Mar 18, 2004
US science policy: Mission impossible?  Mar 18, 2004
Stem Cells, Redux  Mar 12, 2004
Key question for research on human embryos is whether it is moral  Mar 12, 2004
Opting out on stem cells  Mar 11, 2004
The Privatization of Stem Cells  Mar 09, 2004
The Women Behind Cloning   Mar 08, 2004
The Ethics of Science   Mar 08, 2004
A 'Full Range' of Bioethical Views Just Got Narrower   Mar 07, 2004
Reason as Our Guide  Mar 05, 2004
We Don't Play Politics With Science   Mar 03, 2004
Leon Kass Learns to Spin - Sage of bioethics wants you to think he knows nothing  Mar 03, 2004
On High-Tech Reproduction, Italy Will Practice Abstinence  Mar 02, 2004
Face Off - Titans Of Cloning  Mar 01, 2004
Wake-Up America  Mar 01, 2004
Is Dr. Clone creating life or trying to save it? South Korean defends ethics of his controversial research  Feb 28, 2004
Clone the Taxpayers  Feb 26, 2004
The Triumph of Hope Over Science  Feb 25, 2004
U.S. at standstill over cloning debate  Feb 24, 2004
A New Cloning Debate - A scientific breakthrough inspires hope for future cures and reignites vows to outlaw embryonic research  Feb 23, 2004
Cloning potential justifies research  Feb 23, 2004
The Moral imperative for human cloning  Feb 21, 2004
Cloning, it's not  Feb 16, 2004
US should revisit issue of human cloning for medical research  Feb 16, 2004
Cloning Ethics  Feb 15, 2004
Crossing Ethical Borders; Human Cloning Marches On, Without U.S. Help  Feb 15, 2004
Our Cloning Policy, Hostage to a Stalemate  Feb 15, 2004
Human Cloning Success Sparks Heated Debate  Feb 13, 2004
Cloning compromise - Don't ban use of embryonic stem cells for research into treating disease  Feb 13, 2004
US Falls Significantly Behind In Stem Cell Research  Feb 13, 2004
Stem cells: federal funding failure  Feb 13, 2004
Cloning by Koreans Stirs Washington Over Research Is sue  Feb 13, 2004
The Cloning Success in Korea  Feb 13, 2004
Cloning and Democratic Deliberation  Feb 02, 2004
Embryonic stem cell use poses dilemma - Should you destroy a life to save a life? That question is facing many scientists in the lab today.  Feb 01, 2004
Cloning Corporate Welfare - The biotech industry wants your money.  Jan 29, 2004
Will the cloning doctors go from villains to heroes?   Jan 26, 2004
Brave New Babies - Parents now have the power to choose the sex of their children. But as technology answers prayers, it also raises some troubling questions  Jan 26, 2004
Cloning and the First State. With a dishonest bill pending, Delaware looks to join New Jersey as a haven for human cloning  Jan 24, 2004
Pregnant pause - Governments should ban reproductive cloning but allow the therapeutic sort  Jan 22, 2004
Human cloning: Your views  Jan 20, 2004
Entering a Brave New World, Warily  Jan 18, 2004
State of Cloning - An unprecedented law in New Jersey  Jan 05, 2004
Shimmering Chimeras - Moving sheepishly toward the biotech future  Dec 24, 2003
Embryo research bill: Rational  Dec 18, 2003
The Stem Cell Refugee  Dec 12, 2003
Cloning in New Jersey - New Jersey Assembly Bill 2840 looks to be the most radical human cloning measure ever put into law. It should be stopped  Dec 11, 2003
An embryo proposal devoid of modesty or irony  Dec 08, 2003
Of Sheep and Man - Humanity will never be shaped by cloning  Dec 02, 2003
When Fish Fluoresce, Can Teenagers Be Far Behind?  Dec 02, 2003
Embryo Police  Nov 29, 2003
Find cure for ideology  Nov 28, 2003
The Ethics of Sex-Selection: A View from Britain  Nov 21, 2003
Biotech becalmed  Nov 18, 2003
Government must take moral stand in stem-cell research vote  Nov 17, 2003
Parents should have the right to choose the sex of their children  Nov 15, 2003
A Fight at the U.N. Over Cloning  Nov 05, 2003
Genetic Discrimination: Time to Act  Oct 31, 2003
Kabuki and Stem Cells  Oct 31, 2003
The Facts on Stem Cells   Oct 30, 2003
Do the UK embryology laws need updating?  Oct 29, 2003
A Tough Ethical Call. Chinese doctors impregnate a woman using a technique U.S. scientists deemed too hot to handle  Oct 27, 2003
Gay at Birth?  Oct 25, 2003
One Reason Not to Like Bush   Oct 24, 2003
Experimenting with Human Fertility  Oct 16, 2003
Fertility Breakthrough Raises Tough Questions About Link to Cloning  Oct 13, 2003
A Bug's Death  Sep 25, 2003
Dealing with democracy  Sep 25, 2003
Embryonic man  Sep 24, 2003
IVF fears  Sep 11, 2003
The model biotech company? An ethical dilemma  Sep 11, 2003
A brain gap with the Red Chinese  Sep 09, 2003
Cellular songs in the key of life  Aug 29, 2003
Fetal trials need public funds.The outcomes of trials of fetal-cell transplants highlight the importance of public access  Aug 28, 2003
Is ugliness a disease?  Aug 26, 2003
The future of the abortion debate  Aug 18, 2003
Embryo research  Aug 16, 2003
Send in the clones  Aug 14, 2003
Cell division  Aug 13, 2003
Where Is Thy Sting?  Aug 12, 2003
Stem Cells in Limbo  Aug 11, 2003
Prometea unbound  Aug 07, 2003
Artificial eggs and sperm 'will end infertility'  Jul 25, 2003
End of infertility within a decade, say doctors  Jul 25, 2003
'God is not in charge, we are'   Jul 24, 2003
Jamie's legacy - Look again at law on designer babies  Jun 22, 2003
We are some way down a slippery slope   Jun 20, 2003
The price of life - Review the law on embryo selection  Jun 20, 2003
Breeding Fear  Jun 12, 2003
Bush's Political Science  Jun 12, 2003
Reining in assisted reproduction  Apr 17, 2003
Man and superman. Biotechnology could transform humanity - provided humanity wishes to be transformed  Mar 27, 2003
Practical hope. Adult stem cells break through  Mar 14, 2003
Metaphors and dreams. The paradox of the DNA revolution is that it shows us a shining future without telling us how to get there  Jan 13, 2003
Abducting The Cloning Debate  Jan 13, 2003
Fearing the worst should anyone produce a cloned baby  Jan 05, 2003
The Scientists Speak: No Human Cloning  Jan 01, 2003
How Dolly the sheep turned fiction to reality  Dec 28, 2002
A clone by any other name  Dec 23, 2002
Nothing wrong with a little frankenstein  Dec 01, 2002
The transhumanists  Sep 20, 2002
Genetic screening is here to stay. So it's time we got used to it and began to appreciate the benefits   Sep 03, 2002
Holding Cell  Aug 02, 2002
A report and its lessons  Jul 29, 2002
Interview with a humanoid  Jul 23, 2002
Cloning: Huckster or Hero? Michael West's optimistic predictions and unorthodox approach to promoting Advanced Cell Technology have tripped him up  Jun 20, 2002
Cloning can't be stopped  Jun 01, 2002
Stop the cloning  May 23, 2002
Sins of Petition: Does the left really oppose cloned embryo research?  May 06, 2002
The remastered race  May 01, 2002
Everything You Need to Know about Cloning  Apr 29, 2002
Is brave new world inevitable? Bill Kristol says yes. he's wrong  Apr 24, 2002
Body parts - Thanks to American science you really can cheat death - or bits of you can. And at a price, of course  Apr 22, 2002
The future is now, II  Apr 15, 2002
Hidden dragon. American biotech has nothing to fear from China's clones  Mar 16, 2002
The virtue of IVF. It's not designer babies. It's life for Zain   Feb 24, 2002
The Stem-Cell Debate Just Got Thornier. Recent findings may give scientists a way around legal obstacles - but open up new fields for ethical debate  Feb 01, 2002
Should human cloning be allowed? No, it's a moral monstrosity  Dec 05, 2001
Storm in a test tube. How significant is the creation of teh first hman embryo?  Nov 29, 2001
The ethical considerations  Nov 24, 2001
The uncloned states of American?  Oct 16, 2001
Sex Selection - Should you be allowed to pick your kid's sex?  Oct 03, 2001
At Risk: A Golden Opportunity in Biotech. Limits on federal funding have already eroded U.S. research efforts  Sep 11, 2001
Leon Kass, philosopher-politician  Aug 16, 2001
Stem Cells: Looks Like America Is in Bush's Corner   Aug 13, 2001
Cloning, stem cells, and beyond  Aug 13, 2001
Cloning still looks far too dangerous at attempt  Aug 09, 2001
The United States is making a muddle of the ethics of genetic science  Aug 02, 2001
The cutting blob of ethical politics  Jul 05, 2001
Save embryonis stem cell research  May 17, 2001
America's next ethical war  Apr 01, 2001
Cloning around. Human cloning is the stuff og fantasy, but a group of maverick scientists wants to make it real  Mar 15, 2001
Stem cell research advocates in limbo  Jan 20, 2001
Awaiting the Miracles of Stem-Cell Research  Nov 29, 2000
Gene genies  Oct 05, 2000
It's a Girl! Is sex selection the first step to designer children?  Nov 28, 1998
A milestone for human cell science, a new headache for ethicists  Nov 05, 1998
The troubled hunt for the ultimate cell  Aug 01, 1998
Scientific brutality. Aldous Huxley's bleak vision  Feb 26, 1998
Beyond the genome. The ethics of DNA testing  Nov 05, 1994

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