The President's Council on Bioethics, which has produced only one report since it was established by President Bush in 2001, has a somewhat more ambitious agenda going forward, including tackling the ethics of biologically enhancing humans. The council plans to produce a document analyzing "enhancements" — non-therapeutic uses of biotechnology to improve body function and/or retard the human aging process this year, executive director Dean Clancy said Thursday.
The group is also considering a report to the President on advances in adult and embryonic stem cell research, Clancy told
The ethics of using biotech enhancements to slow the aging process were a focus of the Council's March 6 meeting. "Is it reasonable to think that the biological processes of aging ...
