Multimedia
- The Top 10 Current Genetic Enhancements compiled by Anders Sandberg
- Chimeras statement, submitted to the HFEA by the authors of the letter to the Times (authors included Julian Savulescu, Sir John Sulston, and Sir Martin Rees)
ISE Resources on Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
1. Scientific and Commercial Aspects
- Professor Andrew Wilkie: Powerpoint [PDF file: 1454 KB] | Click to listen online | Download from iTunes U
2. Ethical Aspects
- Professor Jonathan Wolff: Click to listen online | Download from iTunes U
3. Consumer and Regulatory Aspects
- Dr Rob Reid: Powerpoint [PDF file: 177 KB]
- Stuart Hogarth: Powerpoint [PDF file: 394 KB] | Click here to listen online | Download from iTunes U
- Dr Helen Wallace: Powerpoint [PDF file: 708 KB] | Click here to listen online | Download from iTunes U
Recent ISE Resources on Cloning and Stem Cell Research
- Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Technologies, by Julian Savulescu
- Ethics of Stem Cell and Cloning Research, by Julian Savulescu
- Cloning Research Benefits, by Julian Savulescu
- A Defense of Stem Cell and Cloning Research, by Katrien Devolder
- Cloning (THES), by Julian Savulescu
- The Case for Creating Human-Nonhuman Cell Lines, by Julian Savulescu
- Solving the Stem Cell and Cloning Puzzle, by Julian Savulescu
- Humbug Costs Lives (Parliamentary Brief), by Julian Savulescu. Link to Parliamentary Brief website
The Emerging Sciences in the News
- Unfair may be fair as genetics conflate steroids:
Discoveries in genetics, physiology and nanotechnology are creating new challenges to definitions of cheating. Professor Julian Savulescu has argued that advances in science mean that attitudes towards the use of performance enhancing technologies in sport must change, in an interview with Bloomberg.com. (Article) - The drugs do work:
Justin Gatlin was the world's fastest man - then, like so many sprinters before him, he failed a dope test and was banned. But the cheats who follow in his wake will be using substances that may be impossible to detect. Observer science editor Robin McKie talks to leading geneticists about the rise of the bionic athlete - and why, in this chilling new world, sport is not the only thing that will be changed beyond recognition. (Article)