Stories indexed under: Bioethics

Total: 10

  • Bioethics forum plumbs creativity’s scientific side April 19, 2013 The 12th annual International Bioethics Forum, "Creative Insight: Further Studies in Human Consciousness," will be held April 25 and 26 on the Promega Corporation campus.
  • Morgridge Institute presents panel on H5N1 influenza research May 30, 2012 The Morgridge Institute for Research will launch its Ethics@Discovery program on Thursday, May 31, at 2 p.m. with “Campus Conversation: Biomedical Research and National Security—Learning from the H5N1 Influenza Story.”
  • Go Big Read gets a fast start on campus; author to visit on Oct. 25 Oct. 19, 2010 Go Big Read, UW-Madison's common reading program, is off to a vigorous start. Some 5,000 copies of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," by Rebecca Skloot, were given away in September at the Chancellor's Convocation for New Students.
  • UW-Madison medical ethicist heading to FDA July 31, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of law R. Alta Charo has accepted a position as senior adviser in the Office of the Commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration, effective Aug. 30.
  • Book details provocative, sometimes gruesome history of organ, blood donations May 29, 2008 Today, a "blood drive" is a cheerful community event, featuring cookies and chats with the neighbors in the high school gym. But a century ago, the first successful blood donations occurred when two people were sewn together by their blood vessels as blood flowed from the donor to the recipient.
  • Pioneering ethicist makes an enduring mark May 7, 2008 If ever there was a gnarly ethical trail to blaze, it’s the one that wends through modern biomedical science.
  • Bioethics forum to be an evolutionary affair April 11, 2008 The 2008 International Bioethics Forum, to be held April 17-18 at Promega Corporation's BioPharmaceutical Technology Center (BTC) in Fitchburg, will delve into the science and controversies of evolution in the 21st Century.
  • Photo of Fost Bioethicist Fost debates use of steroids in sports Jan. 23, 2008 Norman Fost, professor in the departments of pediatrics and medical history and bioethics, and director of the Program in Bioethics, particpiated recently in an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate as an advocate for the motion “Should We Accept Steroid Use in Sports?”
  • Reprogramming the debate: stem-cell finding alters ethical controversy Nov. 20, 2007 When University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers succeeded in reprogramming skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells, they also began to redefine the political and ethical dynamics of the stem-cell debate, a leading bioethicist says.
  • Sixth annual bioethics forum to tackle medical applications of research April 9, 2007 The interface among molecular biology, medical applications, law, religion and ethics will be the focus of the sixth annual international Bioethics Forum, hosted by Promega Corp.'s BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTCI) in Fitchburg.