Luca Coscioni died Monday morning (20.02.06) of respiratory complications at his home in Orvieto, Italy. Our heart goes out to his wife Maria Antonietta and his family. The civil funeral took place on Wednesday 22 February in his Orvieto. The President of the Italian Republic as well as the Chairmen of the Senate and the
Antonino Forabosco Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Session: “ Science, ethics, and and ethics of the scientific research�? Round table: “Genetic determinism and eugenics�? Title: “The new “latinorum�? for media against the biomedical science It is now clear that biology, and especially the beginning of a new
“To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website, preferably an OAI-compliant Eprint Archive. Depositing involves a simple web interface where the depositer copy/pastes in the “metadata” (date, author-name, title, journal-name, etc.) and then attaches the full-text document. Some institutions even offer a proxy self-archiving service, to do the keystrokes on
Investigación, democracia y libertad: el caso de Andalucía. Mª Jesús Montero, Consejera de Salud. Andalucía. Andalucía es la región española más extensa y poblada, con un volumen de población cercano a los ocho millones de habitantes y una superficie de 87.000 kilómetros cuadrados. Esta dispersión geográfica ha generado que, desde que se le transfiriesen las
The Ethical Brain Cognitive Neuroscience has many issues with respect to the current field of neuroethics. Cognitive neuroscience can help with some current ethical dilemmas such as does the embryo have the moral status of a human being? Perhaps most importantly cognitive neuroscience is building an understanding of how brain research will instruct us on
Cesare Galli Session: Genetic determinism and eugenics Title: Somatic cell nuclear transfer in animals: lessons for the future Talking about cloning immediately people’s mind goes to think about copying machines and believe that each cloned animal is a photocopy of the original or of its twins clones. Early studies in monozygotic twins already indicated that
Gilberto Corbellini Professor of History of Medicine, University of Rome To defend the freedom of scientific research today in the world, means to defend personal freedom tout court. Ergo, it means to defend democracy. To promote the scientific education and a scientific culture, which means exporting science, would be by far a more effective and
Tiziano Barberi (PhD, senior scientist in the laboratory of Stem Cell and Tumor Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York) Session: Science, Technology and Economy Round table: Open Access to Science Impact of open access in biomedical research Open access to science comes from one of the initiatives of the Open Society Institute (OSI).
Stem Cells and Public Opinion Giulio Cossu (Director, Stem Cell Research Institute Dibit, H. San Raffaele) “The experience of the Italian referendum on stem cells�? It is now approximately one year since a heated and convulse campaign on the referendum started to reach a peak of animosity and verbal violence few days before the selected
Mino Vianello Facolta’ di Statistica, ” La Sapienza” Descartes Prize E’ naturale, visto il contesto in cui nasce – contesto non solo italiano, anche se in Italia particolarmente scottante dopo l’introduzione d’una legge sulla fecondazione assistita che tocca direttamente il tema della sperimentazione con le cellule staminali embrionali – e’ naturale, dicevo, che quasi implicitamente
