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    Uterus transplantation (UTx) is an experimental surgery likely to face the issue of organ shortage. In my article, I explore how this issue might be addressed by changing the prevailing practices around live uterus donor recruitment. Currently, women with children – often the mothers of recipients – tend to be overrepresented as donors. Yet, other potentially eligible groups who may have an interest in providing their uterus – such as transgender men, or cisgender women who do not wish to gestat…Read more
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    Philosophy Compass, EarlyView.
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    Normative competence, autonomy, and oppression
    Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 8 (1). 2022.
    Natalie Stoljar posits that purely procedural theories of autonomy are unable to explain the ‘feminist intuition’, which is the idea that the internalization of false and oppressive norms are incompatible with autonomy. She claims instead that an account based on ‘normative competence’ – which requires true beliefs and critical reflection – can explain why oppressive norms should be excluded as legitimate decision-making inputs. On my view, however, the normative competence approach is subject t…Read more
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    Should involuntarily childless people have the same opportunities to access parenthood as those who are not involuntarily childless? In the context of assisted reproductive technologies, affirmative answers to this question are often cashed out in terms of positive rights, including rights to third-party reproduction. In this paper, we critically explore the scope and extent to which any such right would hold up morally. Ultimately, we argue for a departure away from positive parental rights. In…Read more
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    Using the instrumented indentation technique for stress characterization of friction stir-welded API X80 steel
    with Y. Lee, J. -Y. Kim, K. -H. Kim, J. Y. Koo, and D. Kwon
    Philosophical Magazine 86 (33-35): 5497-5504. 2006.
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    Abortion & Artificial Wombs
    Philosophy Now 144 26-27. 2021.
    Abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy. In current practice, this involves the death of the foetus. Consequently, the debate on whether those experiencing an unwanted pregnancy have the right to abortion is usually dichotomized as a matter of pro-choice versus pro-life. Pro-choice advocates maintain that abortion is acceptable under various circumstances. The idea that we ought to respect pregnant people’s rights to choose what to do with their bodies – respect for bodily autonomy…Read more
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    Framing gestation: assistance, delegation, and beyond
    Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (7): 448-449. 2022.
    Assisted conception can be distinguished from assisted gestation.1 These processes have tended to be grouped together under the generic term assisted reproductive technology in the bioethical literature. According to Chloe Romanis, however, it is worth distinguishing interventions such as surrogacy, uterus transplantation, and potentially artificial placenta technology, as falling under the genus assisted gestative technologies. This is because gestation carries unique ethico-legal implications …Read more
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    Does ectogestation have oppressive potential?
    Journal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.
    Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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    © 2016, UNESCO IBE.Using comparative data, this article examines the level and distribution of participation in adult education opportunities among countries that participated in PIAAC. It considers observed cross-country patterns in relation to some mechanisms that drive unequal chances to participate and to some policy issues that surround the provision, governance, and financing of different types of adult learning. It also explores recent policy developments relevant to AE in three selected …Read more
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    Distinctive orbital anisotropy observed in the nematic state of a FeSe thin film
    with Y. Zhang, M. Yi, Z. K. Liu, W. Li, R. G. Moore, M. Hashimoto, M. Nakajima, H. Eisaki, S. K. Mo, Z. Hussain, T. P. Devereaux, Z. X. Shen, and D. H. Lu
    © 2016 American Physical Society.The nematic state, where a system is translationally invariant but breaks rotational symmetry, has drawn great attention recently due to the experimental observations of such a state in both cuprates and iron-based superconductors. The origin of nematicity and its possible tie to the pairing mechanism of high-Tc, however, still remain controversial. Here, we study the electronic structure of a multilayer FeSe film using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. …Read more
  • Androgen receptor and chemokine receptors 4 and 7 form a signaling axis to regulate CXCL12-dependent cellular motility
    with J. J. Hsiao, B. H. Ng, M. M. Smits, J. Wang, R. J. Jasavala, H. D. Martinez, J. J. Alston, H. Misonou, J. S. Trimmer, and M. E. Wright
    © Hsiao et al.; licensee BioMed Central.Background: Identifying cellular signaling pathways that become corrupted in the presence of androgens that increase the metastatic potential of organ-confined tumor cells is critical to devising strategies capable of attenuating the metastatic progression of hormone-naïve, organ-confined tumors. In localized prostate cancers, gene fusions that place ETS-family transcription factors under the control of androgens drive gene expression programs that increas…Read more
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    Human induced pluripotent stem cell-based microphysiological tissue models of myocardium and liver for drug development
    with A. Mathur, P. Loskill, S. Hong, Marcus S. G., L. Dumont, B. R. Conklin, H. Willenbring, L. P. Lee, and K. E. Healy
    Drug discovery and development to date has relied on animal models, which are useful but are often expensive, slow, and fail to mimic human physiology. The discovery of human induced pluripotent stem cells has led to the emergence of a new paradigm of drug screening using human and disease-specific organ-like cultures in a dish. Although classical static culture systems are useful for initial screening and toxicity testing, they lack the organization of differentiated iPS cells into microphysiol…Read more
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  • Nrf2 is involved in maintaining hepatocyte identity during liver regeneration
    with Y. Zou, S. M. Nambiar, M. Hu, W. Rui, Q. Bao, J. Y. Chan, and G. Dai
    © 2014 Zou et al. Nrf2, a central regulator of the cellular defense against oxidative stress and inflammation, participates in modulating hepatocyte proliferation during liver regeneration. It is not clear, however, whether Nrf2 regulates hepatocyte growth, an important cellular mechanism to regain the lost liver mass after partial hepatectomy. To determine this, various analyses were performed in wild-type and Nrf2-null mice following PH. We found that, at 60 h post-PH, the vast majority of hep…Read more