September 9, 2024

Amazon Wants Your Palm and TSA Wants Your Face. What Saying Yes Will Mean.

(Wall Street Journal) – More companies and government agencies out in the wild want to read our body parts. The Transportation Security Administration, for example, started scanning passengers’ faces instead of checking IDs. These groups say the biometric processes are … Read More



 
 

August 22, 2024

Second Patient in Trial for Elon Musk’s Neuralink Uses Design Software, Videogames

(Wall Street Journal) – In March, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink introduced its first human trial participant, a quadriplegic who showed the world how he could control a computer cursor with just his thoughts.  On Wednesday, the company said … Read More



 
 

August 16, 2024

Editing Fetal Genomes Is on the Horizon ? a Medical Anthropologist Explains Why Ethical Discussions with the Target Communities Should Happen Sooner Rather Than Later

(The Conversation) – I’m a medical anthropologist and bioethicist who studies the values and experiences driving prenatal gene therapy developments, including genome editing. Human prenatal genome editing has not happened yet – as far as we know. Prenatal genome editing … Read More



 
 

August 14, 2024

ALS Patient Lived with a Brain-Computer Interface for 7 Years. Here’s What Researchers Learned

(STAT News) – STAT spoke with Mariska Vansteensel, a neuroscientist at University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands and president of the international BCI Society, about the field and about a new study that she and her colleagues just published … Read More



 
 

July 26, 2024

Controversial CRISPR Scientist Promises “No More Gene-Edited Babies” Until Society Comes Around

(MIT Technology Review) – He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned to work on the concept of altering the DNA of people at conception, but with a … Read More