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		<title>Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/12550</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The process that created Dolly the sheep in 1996 has now been proven successful in humans. Scientists have made an embryonic clone of a person, using DNA from that person's skin cells. In the future, such a clone could be a source of stem cells, for super-personalized therapies made from people's own DNA.

It's unlikely that this clone could develop into a human, say the scientists, a team of biologists from the U.S. and Thailand. The team plans to publish a paper in the future detailing why not, Nature reported. ]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists create hybrid flu that can go airborne</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/12262</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 19:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists in China has created hybrid viruses by mixing genes from H5N1 and the H1N1 strain behind the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and showed that some of the hybrids can spread through the air between guinea pigs. The results are published inScience1. Flu hybrids can arise naturally when two viral strains infect the same cell and exchange genes. This process, known as reassortment, produced the strains responsible for at least three past flu pandemics, including the one in 2009. There is no evidence that H5N1 and H1N1 have reassorted naturally yet, but they have many opportunities to do so.]]></description>
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		<title>Burma proposes family planning regime to control Muslims</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/12223</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 17:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said the recommendation that the population Muslims should be controlled in the long term was outrageous. “It’s quite chilling to start talking about limiting births of one particular group,” he said. “Will coercive measures get taken on the ground even if the union government says people can take this voluntarily?”

The report said concerns expressed by Buddhists in Rakhine state over the rising population of Muslims they see as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh had "undermined peaceful coexistence" between the two groups. It said the introduction of family planning education "would go some way to mitigating" the crisis.]]></description>
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		<title>“In vitro eugenics” is coming, predicts Australian bioethicist</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/11714</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The production of embryos using sperm and eggs generated with stem cells rather than through sex would also be useful in studying genetic diseases and for drug testing. But Dr Sparrow points out that it would be splendid for eugenics. Generations of people could be created in Petri dishes, eliminating unsatisfactory genes in the quest for better human beings. “In effect,” he writes enthusiastically, “scientists will be able to breed human beings with the same (or greater) degree of sophistication with which we currently breed plants and animals.”]]></description>
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		<title>Do you own your genes, or can Big Pharma patent them?</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/11579</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somebody should check and make sure that Kim Dotcom hasn’t started funding any research in genetics. Maybe those guys from the Pirate Bay, too. With a paper that must send chills of fear and vindication down the spine of every internet freedom fighter, researchers from Cornell University this week presented evidence that genetic copyright is a “direct threat to genomic liberty.” Could this be the newest, most easily altruistic frontier in copyright banditry?]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Scan Predicts Whether Convicts Will Re-Offend: Welcome To The Sci-Fi Future</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/11527</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to predict whether convicted felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. Convicts showing low activity in a brain region associated with decision-making and action are more likely to be arrested again, and sooner.The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the prisoners’ brains during computer tasks in which subjects had to make quick decisions and inhibit impulsive reactions.]]></description>
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		<title>How future apps will target and market your brainwaves</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/11519</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electroencephalography, which is widely known as a medical diagnostic test  has more potential uses. An EEG device is typically a headset with a small number of electrodes placed on different parts of the skull in order to detect the electrical signals made by your brainwaves. 

One company, Government Works Inc., is developing BCI headsets for lie detection and criminal investigations. By measuring a person's responses to questions and images, the company claims to be able to determine whether that person has knowledge of certain information or events (leading to conclusions, for instance, about whether that person was at a crime scene). ]]></description>
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		<title>China Is Engineering Genius Babies</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/11288</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At BGI Shenzhen, scientists have collected DNA samples from 2,000 of the world’s smartest people and are sequencing their entire genomes in an attempt to identify the alleles which determine human intelligence. Apparently they’re not far from finding them, and when they do, embryo screening will allow parents to pick their brightest zygote and potentially bump up every generation's intelligence by five to 15 IQ points. Within a couple of generations, competing with the Chinese on an intellectual level will be like challenging Lena Dunham to a getting-naked-on-TV contest.]]></description>
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		<title>Designing Life: Should Babies Be Genetically Engineered?</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/10867</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The increasing power and accessibility of genetic technology may one day give parents the option of modifying their unborn children, in order to spare offspring from disease or, conceivably, make them tall, well muscled, intelligent or otherwise blessed with desirable traits.

Would this change mean empowering parents to give their children the best start possible? Or would it mean designer babies who could face unforeseen genetic problems? Experts debated on Wednesday evening (Feb. 13) whether prenatal engineering should be banned in the United States. ]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Women Dumped In Field After Mass Sterilisation Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The women had all undergone surgical procedures at a hospital in the Malda district of West Bengal, around 360 kilometres (220 miles) north of Kolkata, which officials admitted was not equipped to accommodate such a large number of patients. The scandal came to light after news channel NDTV aired amateur footage of unconscious women being carried out of the hospital  by men and then placed on open land.“This is inhuman and we have ordered a probe into the incident,” he added.]]></description>
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