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Credit: Wikipedia, adapted from an illustration by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Reflections - scientists and research under test / Bracha Reger

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laboratory mouse. Illustration: shutterstock

Seeing through science / Julia Calderon

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Using stem cells to grow organs for transplantation. Illustration: shutterstock

The stem cell revolution turned out to be a fraud

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Respirator. Photo: shutterstock

First case of euthanasia in Israel: the Attorney General allowed the judge to allow euthanasia for an ALS patient who requested it

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genetic tests. Photo: shutterstock

The era of free DNA and its social consequences

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Prof. Makoto Eshima. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"Ethics should catch up with technology, especially in the field of life sciences"

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Garden healing. Illustration: shutterstock

The second act of genetic healing / Ricky Lewis

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Cloned macaque twins born in China, January 2014. Photo: Cell

For the first time cloning of monkeys with a planned mutation: two macaque monkeys were cloned using the "gene editing" method

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Experiments on animals. Photo: shutterstock

University research vice presidents call for halting laws that would make animal testing impossible

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A girl in Peshawar, Pakistan, receives an attenuated polio vaccine in drops in 2002. Photo: shutterstock

Polio: The Circular Arguments of Vaccine Opponents

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Ethics in science. Illustration: shutterstock

Reflections - the researcher's commitment to the ethics of science / Bracha Reger

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The debate is over. None of the religions. Photo: shutterstock

Research headquarters: Atheists are more intelligent than religious

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Russian mice returned from space after a month, the gerbils did not survive the journey

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Prof. Shokrat Mitilifov, the Medical-Scientific University of Oregon, was the first to succeed in cloning an embryo carrying the genetic load of a specific patient - in this case, an eight-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disease. Photo: OHSU

Human cloning at last: a stem cell of a specific patient was obtained for the first time in history through cloning

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Laboratory mice suffering from brain white matter damage syndrome. Photo. Yuval Kabili, Tel Aviv University

Opinion - "Don't believe everything that is written in the newspaper"

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Nuclear waste in northern Australia

The voice of the skeptic - the left's war on science / Michael Shermer

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Distribution of drugs in the body using nanoparticles. Image: University of Copenhagen

Medical ethics - are drug studies reliable? / Charles Zaif

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World War II-era US emergency services poster urging vaccinating babies. From Wikimedia Commons

A country haunted by demons LT: following the death of an unvaccinated baby - an ideology that leads to the murder of children

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Ron Nachman, Anat Gov and Channel 2 news reporter Rina Mishleh in an article that dealt with their friendship and the herbal medicine that is supposed to cure them of cancer. Both of them died about six months after the broadcast of Mishleh's article. Screenshot from the article, taken from a megaphone.

Healing or temptation? The case of Ron Nachman and Anat Gov their memory is blessed

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"To think of ways to prevent misuse of databases". Dr. Yaniv Ehrlich. Photo: MIT

The secret of the disappearing gene

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Figure 3: What is meant by genetic mutation, and what is the chance of a sick offspring?

So what do you do there at the university? Chapter 10: On developing a research model for 'orphan' diseases

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A sacred cow. From Wikipedia

A weekend of skepticism: doubting all the way to the truth

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Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney and Vice President candidate Paul Ryan at the party convention held in Tampa Florida in late August 2012. From Wiki-News. Originally from Flickr, CC license

Republican Party Platform: Curbing the Environmental Protection Agency, withdrawing from manned space flights

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US President Barack Obama, from his election website

Washington Court of Appeals: Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research legal

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