Apr

Embryo Adoption, Stem Cell Research, Partial Birth Abortion Oh My: Breaking News From DITM

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Future, Musings, Technology, Women's Health, infertility, stem cells

When does human life begin and what is a human? Fertility specialists wrestle with this question every day as embryos are created, frozen, thawed, implanted, and discarded. Occasionally an embryo is even “adopted”. Today I received the draft results of a US government Health and Human Services Research Project that I participated in on the […]

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Apr

Babies Without Men: Creating Sperm From A Woman’s Bone Marrow

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Uncategorized

Scientists report today on the ability to create sperm from bone marrow cells. Initially performed in men, the technique could potentially be performed in women and lead to a sperm cell made from a woman’s body. You got it right- that cell could then fertilize an egg leading to the first female-female conception in human […]

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Apr

Babies Without Men: Creating Sperm From A Woman’s Bone Marrow

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Musings, Technology, Women's Health, genetics, infertility, stem cells

NOTE TO READERS: this post is a copy of the full article and discussion which can be found here- please click for the many many comments
Scientists report today on the ability to create sperm from bone marrow cells. Initially performed in men, the technique could potentially be performed in women and lead to a sperm […]

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Apr

Carnivals Galore: Grand Rounds x 2 and GeneGenie

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Blogs, Medical Devices, Musings, PGD, Technology, genetics, infertility

I wanted to catch up with the recent carnivals and thank them for including docinthemachine’s posts. First was keagirl a great medblogger who writes at urostream. This grand rounds was straight to the point and a cavalcade of posts. Thanks for including my post on technology: is it god evil or neutral?
Dr Palter from Doc […]

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Apr

DITM at Podcamp NYC

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Blogs, Medicine-general & other, Musings, Technology, podcast

In preparation for my two new podcast projects I spent the day at Podcamp NYC- the “unconference” of podcasters. THe idea of an unconference is that the participants script the events - or more accurately - they occur spontaneously. There is not spposed to be formal invitees or corporate ownership but rather the players and […]

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Apr

DITM 2 New Podcast Projects Close to Launch!

Posted by Steven F. Palter, MD Published in Blogs, Medical Devices, Medicine-general & other, Musings, Technology, fun, future vision, pharmaceuticals, podcast

New Podcast Projects: The past two weeks have been a wild ride of fun and excitement! I have two podcast projects undergoing the final edits prior to launcing. The first is the docinthemachine podcast focusing on the new technology and medical breakthroughts of this blog. The second, is a major new medical education project - […]

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