ABC World News Tonight. If you've always want to clone a loved one, you'll probably want to learn more about Godsend Institute, a clinic that specializes in the replication of cells for the purpose of creating life from life. But don't get your hopes up: The clinic is fictional. And its Web site -- which provides details on the clinic's services -- is a marketing tool for a new Robert DeNiro movie. David Magnus, PhD, co-director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, discussed the movie and its sophisticated marketing approach on "ABC World News Tonight."

ABCNews.com. Ethical issues also popped up in a story on "brain boosting" on ABCNews.com. Judy Illes, PhD, senior research scholar in the ethics center, commented that it's critical that certain issues be addressed before we tamper with our biology.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/SciTech/DyeHard/brain_boosters_dyehard_040428-1.html

SF Weekly. Other highlights of the week include a detailed SF Weekly story on intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) that featured Richard Hoppe, MD, the Henry S. Kaplan-Harry Lebeson Professor of Cancer Biology, and Steven Leibel, MD, incoming director of the Stanford Cancer Center.
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2004-04-28/feature.html/1/index.html

Reuters Health. Numerous outlets, including Reuters Health, wrote stories on a Stanford study showing six genes may be able to predict which lymphoma patients are likely to respond to treatment. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=17&u=/nm/lymphoma_tests_dc

Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. Martha Marsh, CEO of Stanford Hospital & Clinics, was also in the spotlight this week. She was profiled in a SiliValley/San Jose Journal piece. http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/05/03/focus5.html