July 11, 2019
Eugenics
June 24, 2019
British Judge Orders Disabled 22-Week Pregnant Woman to Have Abortion
June 24, 2019
Leaps and Boundaries: The Rise of China as a Science Superpower
June 20, 2019
CRISPR Babies: When Will the World Be Ready?
June 17, 2019
Russian Geneticist Answers Challenges to His Plan to Make Gene-Edited Babies
June 12, 2019
Russian Biologist Plans More CRISPR-Edited Babies
June 11, 2019
Paternity Testing Had a Long History Before Today’s DNA Kits. The Science Hasn’t Always Matched the Hype
June 7, 2019
How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars
June 4, 2019
Congress Revives Ban on Altering the DNA of Human Embryos Used for Pregnancies
June 3, 2019
Clarence Thomas Knows Nothing of My Work
June 3, 2019
The Surgeon Had a Dilemma Only a Nazi Medical Text Could Resolve. Was It Ethical to Use It?
June 3, 2019
A Mutation That Resists HIV Has Other Harmful Consequences
May 28, 2019
Fertility Clinics Around the World Asked ‘CRISPR Babies’ Scientist for How-To Help
May 27, 2019
IVF Couples Could Be Able to Choose the ‘Smartest’ Embryo
May 23, 2019
‘We As A Species Need to Come to Terms’ with CRISPR Technology as China Awaits Birth of Third Genetically Modified Baby
May 21, 2019
The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism
May 1, 2019
Will Gene-Editing of Human Embryos Ever Be Justifiable?
(News-Medical) – World-leading medical ethicist Professor Arthur Caplan has published a series of recommendations with the aim of addressing worldwide concerns over gene editing of human embryos. The article, which was recently published in the journal PLoS Biology, was fuelled … Read More
April 26, 2019
How to Prepare for a Future of Gene-Edited Babies–Because It’s Coming
(Smithsonian) – It really feels to me like the world of science fiction and science fact are, in many ways, converging,” says Jamie Metzl. The polymath would know—he’s an expert on Asian foreign relations who served in the State Department, … Read More
April 25, 2019
While Bioethics Fiddles
(The New Atlantis) – In the past, embryonic stem cells were used for these experiments. But researchers have begun to favor a relatively recent innovation: induced pluripotent stem cells, which have essentially the same properties as embryonic stem cells but … Read More
April 25, 2019
Japan Apologizes to Victims of Forced Sterilization
(The Guardian) – Japan’s government has issued an apology and awarded compensation to thousands of people with disabilities who were forcibly sterilised under a now defunct eugenics law. As part of legislation that passed parliament’s upper house on Wednesday, surviving … Read More
April 22, 2019
Genetic Basis of Obesity Carries Weight
(GEN) – There are, undoubtedly, many factors that go into a person’s weight. A new report from the lab of Sekar Kathiresan, MD, director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), documents a clear biologic basis … Read More
April 19, 2019
U.S. Researcher Says He’s Ready to Start Four Pregnancies with ‘Three-Parent’ Embryos
(STAT News) – Researchers at Columbia University in New York have created embryos containing genetic material from three people and are ready to use them to start pregnancies. But they’re at a legal impasse. At a public forum at Harvard … Read More
April 17, 2019
Human Gene Editing Is Controversial. Shoukhrat Mitalipov Isn’t Deterred
(Discover Magazine) – Off screen, the sperm vacuum makes a quick pit stop to grab an additional solution before appearing again, poised and ready. In a moment, the egg will be injected not only with sperm but with a dose … Read More
April 16, 2019
Sex-Selective Abortions May Have Stopped the Birth of 23 Million Girls
(New Scientist) – A huge analysis of worldwide population data suggests sex-selective abortions have led to at least 23 million fewer girls being born. The majority of these “missing” girls are in China and India. Many societies value sons over … Read More
April 16, 2019
George Church Wants to Make Genetic Matchmaking a Reality
(Discover Magazine) – Church imagines a variation of this program for couples everywhere. Existing social media and online dating sites could be modified to implement this kind of genetic matchmaking at a population scale — for all diseases. In Church’s … Read More
