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Lawrence Hrubes

Karolinska Institute to cut ties with controversial surgeon : Nature News & Comment - 0 views

  • The Karolinska Institute (KI) in Stockholm is ending its association with acclaimed but controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who pioneered transplants of artificial windpipes but has been accused of ethical breaches in his work. 
  • Ethical questions The surgeon’s work was hailed as a game-changer in regenerative medicine when, in 2011, he implanted a plastic artificial trachea, using bioengineered stem cells, into a patient whose own windpipe had been damaged. Over the next three years, he carried out seven more synthetic trachea implantations — two more at the Karolinska, one in Illinois and four in Russia, where he heads a tissue engineering project. Six of the eight patients have died (from causes unrelated to the transplants, Macchiarini says), and one has been in intensive care since the procedure.
Lawrence Hrubes

BBC World Service - The Forum, A Leap of Faith: Finding common ground between Science a... - 1 views

  • The Forum @ CERN: A Leap of Faith: Finding Common Ground Between Science and Theology. Promoting a dialogue between science and religion has long been a challenging task- the two communities of thought often seem far apart. The Forum explores the challenge in a discussion recorded at CERN in Switzerland and asks not only why this dialogue is important but how it is working and where it might lead. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research where physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universeWith Bridget Kendall to discuss common ground between science and religion are:Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, a German particle physicist and the Director General of the European Organization of Nuclear Research, or CERN, since 2009.Marcelo Gleiser, Professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College who specialises in cosmology, nonlinear physics and astrobiology. Dr. Kusum Jain, a renowned Indian scholar of Jain Philosophy and Director of the Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. She has published extensively on such topics as human rights, the roots of terrorism, and bio-ethics.Monsignor Tomasz Trafny, Head of Science and Faith, Vatican City State.And there is poetry, especially written for the programme, by British poet Murray Lachlan Young.
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    This is a 41-minute broadcast from 8 Dec 2015.
Artem Terentiev

Google says it acknowledges some people want 'right to be forgotten' - 2 views

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    When put into a situation when many people want to have information to have information, that might be false or outdated, removed from the google search engine, google has decided to out of over 220,000 requests to decline this to about 60% of the people. Was that the right thing to do?
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