Medical Research

What is embryonic stem cell research? Why is it so controversial? What is its relationship to human cloning? Events are moving so fast and biotechnology seems so complicated that many of us don't have an informed opinion about issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes.

The current trend in medical research regarding the effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation for controlling various health issues consistently shows negative results. for vitamin D supplementation. This doesn't make sense.We know that vitamin D deficiency is associated with most diseases. Clearly, there's a disconnect, due to improperly designed research studies. Researchers are consistently failing to consider a critical element with regard to proper vitamin D utilization by the human body. And their failure to consider this critical issue skews their research data, making their ...

Have we advanced so far that we have arrived full circle with the technology of ancient times? Dr. James Bartlow thinks so. Appointed by the president of the United States to head the country's first national center for live fetal-tissue research, Bartlow stumbles upon an ancient, unknown technology that he believes will open the gateway to a whole new paradigm.

Synopsis - A devout Christian refuses a heart transplant based on her religious convictions. After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions. Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube. ★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner Conversation Magazine" and get this, and other, ...

This is the story of how A.I. Theoretically Rachel survives in San Francisco and Oakland, helped by other half-A.I. half-humans including Doreen Thing, Vivian Oblivion, and Dead Leslie. They are the Neutrino Girls, anarchistic hackers and squatters empowered by artificial intelligence. Vicious psychiatrist Doctor Cube created these A.I. hybrids in a San Francisco mental hospital. Some of the Neutrino Girls escape and are swallowed by the streets, prostitution, poverty, America's failed Afghanistan War, and the wildness of rogue A.I. Richard S. Ehrlich is a Bangkok-based American journalist,...

I came to the lab hoping for a fresh start, a chance to escape my small-town life with the promise of a big payout. The research program was secretive, but the reward seemed too good to pass up. As soon as I arrived, the high-tech facility felt clinical, yet something in the air pulsed with a strange, sensual energy. I wasn’t sure if it was the cold, sterile halls or the way Dr. Carter, the enigmatic lead scientist, watched me with an intensity I couldn’t shake. The experiments were different than I expected. My body began to change in ways I never could have imagined—curves growing ...