Controversial Topics http://www.akgmag.com/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:00:01 -0600 By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Organ donations go back as far as 1954, when a kidney was successfully transplanted from one healthy body to a diseased one. Today, most parts such as skin, cartilage, lungs, intestines, corneas, nerves, bones, and skin are being used. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Organ_Donation__Medical_Miracles_for_Monetary_Gain.htm Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Organ_Donation__Medical_Miracles_for_Monetary_Gain.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. On March 1, 2009, researchers announced they had finally found a way to eventually eliminate the need for human embryos for stem cell research, replacing them with the process of transforming ordinary skin cells into powerful stem cells. This is a landmark in healthcare along with President Obama opening the doors to stem cell research with Federal funding, considered to be the very first time that scientists have turned ordinary skin cells into "induced pluripotent stem cells" or iPS cells http://www.akgmag.com/article/Development_of_Induced_Pluripotent_stem_cells__or_iPS_cells.htm Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Development_of_Induced_Pluripotent_stem_cells__or_iPS_cells.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. There are two types of cloning—therapeutic and reproductive—with each one having its own group of supporters and anti-cloners behind it. There are fifteen states having laws which pertain to both types of cloning, with the very first law effective 1997 in the state of California. This state of "firsts" banned reproductive cloning or cloning to initiate a pregnancy, with the states of Arizona and Missouri providing legal measures which address the use of public funding for cloning. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Ins_and_Outs_of_Human_Cloning.htm Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Ins_and_Outs_of_Human_Cloning.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Quite recently President Obama made an announcement to our country stating he felt that human cloning was not only dangerous, but profoundly wrong and has no place in society. Better yet, a major question is how human cloning can be justified not only when our world is dangerously populated already but also how can we justify the death and disabled which will result from the effects of human cloning. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Re__The_Human_Cloning_Prohibition_Act_of_2009.htm Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Re__The_Human_Cloning_Prohibition_Act_of_2009.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. When we watch the movies of Harry Potter, the cloak he wears to become instantaneously invisible makes his movies not only fascinating but "way-out there" for the majority of viewers. But researchers are developing what we pay to see at the Potter movies---the cloak of invisibility which involves an object becoming invisible or undetectable to electromagnetic waves. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Invisible_Cloak_of_Harry_Potter_Becoming_a_Scientific_Reality.htm Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Invisible_Cloak_of_Harry_Potter_Becoming_a_Scientific_Reality.htm