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Liminal Bioethics for Liminal Statuses: A New Method for Analysing Novel Biological Entities. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Novel biological entities such as cell lines and organoids do not typically fit into established conceptual categories, such as ‘human’ or ‘nonhuman’, ‘gift’ or ‘property’. This makes developing robust ethical principles or policy solutions difficult.
Wee M, Singh I.
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Family pedigrees as a speech genre [PDF]
The genre of family pedigrees is now becoming more widespread. However, as a speech genre, it has hardly been studied. The author began collecting data on genealogies in 2002, compiled a personal archive of family genealogies in 30 volumes, which is ...
Kharchenko, Vera Konstantinovna
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The memory of somatic cell gene expression is reset in the germline in a process that is accompanied by dramatic changes in chromatin modifications. In this issue, Katz et al. (2009) show that the histone demethylase Lsd1/Spr-5 may participate in this resetting process in the worm, thereby preventing a decline in germ cell epigenetic stability and ...
Swigut, Tomek, Wysocka, Joanna
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The current, utilitarian debate on the relation between euthanasia and happiness focusses primarily on the subject of dying patients. Where some utilitarians stress how euthanasia may relieve suffering in the process of dying, others emphasize the ...
Donovan van der Haak
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The moral law is a pure existing fact of our mind and it is not conditioned by anything external. That universal law, when it is ordered and applied, is superior to our ‘happiness’ or ‘unhappiness’, far from today’s pragmatic form of moralizing and its ...
Fahira Fejzić-Čengić
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Comparative Comparison of Immortality in Sadra'i Wisdom and Allameh Tabatabai's Thought [PDF]
The subject of the article is a comparative comparison of immortality in Sadra'i wisdom and Allameh Tabatabai's thought. Mulla Sadra, based on the rule of ‘corporeal in its origination and spiritual [or incorporeal] in its survival’ (jismaniyyat al ...
hamedeh Rastaei, Kobra Najafian
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The “Cambridge pragmatists”, Charles S. Peirce, William James and Josiah Royce, are at least in two respects significantly indebted to Kant: first, as von Kempski, Apel and Murphey have shown, with regard to the epistemological issues investigated in ...
Ludwig Nagl
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Cell aging preserves cellular immortality in the presence of lethal levels of damage. [PDF]
Cellular aging, a progressive functional decline driven by damage accumulation, often culminates in the mortality of a cell lineage. Certain lineages, however, are able to sustain long-lasting immortality, as prominently exemplified by stem cells.
Chao, Lin +4 more
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THE MYTH ABOUT IMMORTALITY. FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
The main goal of this article is the exploration of immortality as a process of not ending life. Different forms of immortality are analyzed: metaphysical, genetic, digital and individual ones.
Ruslan V. Klymenko
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Nietzsche, immortality, singularity and eternal recurrence [PDF]
Joan Copjec has shown that modernity is privy to a notion of immortality all its own – one that differs fundamentally from any counterpart entertained in Greek antiquity or the Christian Middle Ages.
Olivier, Bert
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