One of us will be present during the 24th edition of the International youth festival “Mladifest” of Medjugorje, https://www.mladifest.com/medjugorje/. You will find some volunteers that will give you the possibility to sign the Initiative and to find some materials. The volunteers will be there from the 1st to the 6st of August 2013. Location: Medjugorje…
A man who was told by officials they couldn’t register his fourth child because he didn’t pay a penalty for breaking China’s family planning laws stabbed to death two government workers and injured four others, state media and an official said. Footage of police trying to subdue the man outside a family planning office in…
LONDON — ZHANG YIMOU, the celebrated film director and arranger of the 2008 Summer Olympics’ opening ceremony in Beijing, was accused last week of being the latest high-profile violator of China’s one-child policy. The People’s Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, alleged that Mr. Zhang had fathered seven children with four different women. The news has…
Researchers shut down the extra chromosome responsible for Down’s syndrome, paving the way for future treatments Scientists have corrected the genetic fault that causes Down’s syndrome– albeit in isolated cells – raising the prospect of a radical therapy for the disorder. In an elegant series of experiments, US researchers took cells from people with DS and…
Order your copy on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Learn how the adult stem cells found inside our bodies – our healing cells – can be used to repair damaged hearts and organs, restore sight, kill cancer, cure diabetes, heal burns and stop the march of degenerative diseases. Within The Healing Cell, you’ll learn the stories of: Mark Cast, who…
It is a common misconception in America that in the rest of the world, scientists are free to work with embryonic stem cells all they want, and that in the United States, we are “far behind” everyone else because of President George W. Bush’s funding restrictions. That simply is not true. Unlike the U.S. that…
Romania has reached the minimum signatures required by the Commission. With this great advance from Romania 10 EU countries have support the citizens initiative One of Us surpassing the number of signatures required by the EU regulations for the ECI’s: Austria, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia. Congratulations to all the team…
Public policy researcher Wang Feng slammed the One-Child Policy at an academic conference in Beijing last month. Wang, who works for the Brookings Tsinghua Center for Public Policy Research, delivered his bold criticism in an interview with Chinese media outlet Sohu Finance. “I believe history will judge the One-Child Policy as worse than the Cultural Revolution,” Wang said.…
Scientists have learned how to “turn off” the extra gene that leads to Down syndrome. From the Guardian story: Scientists have corrected the genetic fault that causes Down’s syndrome– albeit in isolated cells – raising the prospect of a radical therapy for the disorder. In an elegant series of experiments, US researchers took cells from people with DS…
On July 3rd 2013, during its 1175th meeting,the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe officially admitted that it is incapable of answering the two following questions: Can the Committee of Ministers confirm that the Council of Europe is not committed to a policy of promoting access to abortion? Can the Committee of Ministers,…