News tagged with surrogates
World first: Japanese scientists create transgenic monkeys
In a controversial achievement, Japanese scientists announced on Wednesday they had created the world's first transgenic primates, breeding monkeys with a gene that made the animals' skin glow a fluorescent ...
May 27, 2009 |
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'Surrogates' aid design of complex parts and controlling video games
Researchers have defined a new class of software, calling it "surrogate interaction," which enables designers and video gamers to more easily change features of complex objects like automotive drawings or ...
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May 10, 2011 |
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SKorean experts claim to have cloned glowing dogs
(AP) -- South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases. The four dogs, all named "Ruppy" - a combination ...
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Surrogate decision makers wish to retain authority in difficult decision
The decision to stop life-support for incapacitated and critically ill patients is, for surrogate decision makers, often fraught with moral and ethical uncertainty, and long-term emotional consequences. But as difficult as ...
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Vitamin D status not predicted by surrogate markers, researchers find
Vitamin supplements, diet, geographic location, demographic information or lifestyle, independently or in combination, cannot accurately predict vitamin D concentrations in blood, researchers at the University at Buffalo ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Cuckoo's copying an evolutionary curiosity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of brood parasitism in birds has shown that the nest-poaching New Zealand shining cuckoo's ability to mimic its grey warbler host is an evolutionary curiosity.
Mar 31, 2010 |
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Intrafamilial medically assisted reproduction
The ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law acknowledges the benefits that IMAR may bring to those choosing this approach and concludes that certain forms of IMAR are morally acceptable under certain conditions. The group advises ...
Jan 20, 2011 |
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Numerous factors weighed when patients cannot make their own decisions
Living wills and surrogate decision makers account for only a portion of the many factors weighed by physicians when making medical decisions for hospitalized patients lacking the capability to make their ...
Mar 22, 2010 |
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How do doctors really feel about surrogate decision making?
A growing number of hospitalized adults are incapable of making their own health decisions, but little research has explored how doctors feel about making medical decisions with a patient's surrogate decision ...
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Most support Alzheimer's research based on family consent
By the time they have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, many patients' decision-making ability is so impaired that they cannot give informed consent to participate in research studies.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 14, 2009 |
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