Research with human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs) faces challenges not only in labs but also in courts. During the summer of 2010, a US federal court barred the NIH from distributing money to fund research with hESCs. The case, Sherley v. Sebelius, revolved around the claim that the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which prohibits using of federal
If you have trouble reading this, please click http://www.freedomofresearch.org/sites/default/files/freedom23.html World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research the bulletin Number 23, April 2011 Embryo’s patentability, your comments. In response to newsletter no. 22, Bernard Siegel, Executive Director and founder of Genetics Policy Institute (GPI), sent his opinion on patentability of biotechnology inventions: “In a sense,
Three weeks ago, on March 10, the Advocate General of the European Union’s Court of Justice, issued a non-binding preliminary opinion “in complete independence” on the question of the meaning of the term “human embryo” in the 1998 European Commission directive on the patentability of biotechnology inventions. This opinion concludes that “an invention cannot be
Briefly, I would say that Science is not the enemy; science would not be science if it does not fulfil the human quest of discovery, wherever it may lead. The true enemy is human dialogue on the one hand and abuse of science on the other. Human dialogue is often found solely under the disguise
If you have trouble reading this, please click http://www.freedomofresearch.org/article/2011-03-31/news/bulletin/bulletin-number-22-march-2011 World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research the bulletin Number 22, March 2011 The Hinxton Group issues statement on data/materials sharing and IPR. The Hinxton Group recently released its third set of recommendations titled “Statement on Policies and Practices Governing Data and Materials Sharing and Intellectual
The Hinxton Group http://www.hinxtongroup.org/ recently released its third set of recommendations titled: “Statement on Policies and Practices Governing Data and Materials Sharing and Intellectual Property in Stem Cell Science”. Tension is increasing between fairly new and pervasive policies and practices governing data and materials sharing and intellectual property in science, and norms of openness and
If you have trouble reading this, please click http://www.freedomofresearch.org/article/2011-02-24/news/bulletin/bulletin-number-21-february-2011 World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research the bulletin Number 21, February 2011 Hungary and secularism. Following to the open letter sent to the members of the Hungarian Parliament, drawing MPs’ attention on the fact that the draft constitution “if approved in its present version, might
Dear Colleagues, If we ask someone what comes into mind about Hungary, the answer is mostly two things. The first is Puskás, the legendary Hungarian football player of the Real Madrid. We do not want to include his success into the new Constitution, not like the other thing that always comes into mind about Hungary:
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) is a human rights watch-dog NGO established in 1994. The HCLU received an invitation to take part in the work of the ad-hoc Parliamentarian Committee on Constitution Drafting. HCLU declined the invitation. The reasons why HCLU made this decision reflects our opinion on the draft of the new Constitution. In
To the Members of the Hungarian Parliament Dear Colleagues, We are informed that according to a document published by your Ad hoc Parliamentary Constitution Drafting Committee, Hungary’s drafted Constitution should include the protection of life understood as starting from the conception. Moreover the proposal provides special protection to the institution of marriage, understood as the
