SCBE In The News

July 2004

07/04/04
Contra Costa Times
Current stem-cell lines have clinical, political origination
Hank Greely, with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is quoted in this overview of the elements of stem cell research. (registration required)

07/05/04
Research File (Radio Netherlands)
Barbara Koenig, associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, discussed nicotine addiction and the field of neuroethics for this radio program. The airing 
followed a scientific symposium on the "plastic brain."

07/14/04
Kansas City Star
A Blemish in Diagnostic Imaging
Judy Illes, senior research scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provides comment in this article on diagnostic imaging. (Registration Required) 

07/19/04
CHQR (Calgary, Alberta)
July Illes, senior research scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, was interviewed for this segment on Provigil, a drug that allows people to stay awake and attentive when their bodies crave sleep. She 
discussed the wisdom of taking such medications and the ethics of their increasing availability to the public.

07/23/04
ABCNews.com
Former U.N. envoy finds African roots
Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young used DNA technology to find his African roots. Hank Greely, with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is quoted in this Associated Press article. The article also appears on the websites of numerous newspapers, including the New York Times, Newsday (New York), Philadelphia Daily News, San Jose Mercury News, San Luis Obispo Tribune and Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

07/23/04
Nature.com
First 'black' drug nears approval
A heart drug being tested in black patients is on course to become the first medicine approved for use in a specific ethnic group. Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, a senior research scholar with the Stanford Center for Biomedical 
Ethics, provides comment in this article.

07/26/04
CNN.com
Ex-ambassador finds African roots with DNA
Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young used DNA technology to find his African roots. Hank Greely, with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is quoted in this Associated Press article. The article also appears in the Charleston Post & Courier (Charleston, S.C.).

7/28/04
San Jose Mercury News
Stanford breakthrough likely to rekindle stem cell debate
David Magnus, co-director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, co-wrote this editorial on the debate about the use of fetal tissue for research. Steinberg's study is discussed. (registration required)

07/29/04
USA Today
Mind control: more than just a plot point?
In the soon-to-be-released movie The Manchurian Candidate, a character is surgically brainwashed. Judy Illes, senior research scholar at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, provides comment in this article on 
the movie and the future of neuroscience.