September 6, 2018
(STAT News) – Cohen’s latest target is the stimulant higenamine, an ingredient listed on the labels of weight loss and sports supplements. Working with a public health team from the Netherlands and an international testing lab, the Harvard Medical School … Read More
September 3, 2018
(The Conversation) – Life extension – using science to slow or halt human aging so that people live far longer than they do naturally – may one day be possible. Big business is taking this possibility seriously. In 2013 Google … Read More
August 28, 2018
(Good Morning America) – In an age of social media, when teens are frequently comparing themselves to others and receiving instant comment on their appearance, a greater number of teens than ever are seeking — and having — cosmetic surgery … Read More
August 28, 2018
(Bloomberg) – A stem cell storage company that promises the chance for a longer and healthier life, Forever Labs asserts that young, healthy cells may someday be used for what Chief Executive Officer Steven Clausnitzer calls “health maintenance.” These cells, the company … Read More
August 9, 2018
(Wired) – As George Church, a Harvard geneticist and leading synthetic biologist, argues: “One likely path for risk reduction in space does seem to involve biological engineering of adult would-be astronauts.” He has identified 40-some genes that might be advantageous … Read More
August 2, 2018
(ABC News) – The Brazilian butt lift, which has been increasingly in high demand, carries an “unusually high mortality rate,” that is “greater than any other cosmetic surgery,” according to a new warning to surgeons performing the procedure from a … Read More
July 31, 2018
(BBC) – Women are being warned against risky cosmetic “rejuvenating” procedures to reshape and tighten the vagina. Experts say the “therapies”, offered by some private clinics in the UK and the US, pose a serious risk of burns, scarring and … Read More
July 23, 2018
(BBC) – A celebrity Brazilian plastic surgeon known as Dr Bumbum has been arrested after four days on the run following the death of one of his patients. Police say Dr Denis Furtado was detained in Rio de Janeiro thanks … Read More
July 19, 2018
Bioethics (vol. 32, no. 5, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Conscience Claims, Metaphysics, and Avoiding an LGBT Eugenic” by Abram Brummett “Regret, Shame, and Denials of Women’s Voluntary Sterilization” by Dianne Lalonde “Empathy, Social Media, and … Read More
July 19, 2018
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 27, no. 3, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Regulations on Genome Editing of Human Embryos in Japan: Our Moral Moratorium” by Eisuke Nakazawa, Keiichiro Yamamoto, Aru Akabayashi, and Akira Akabayashi … Read More
July 18, 2018
(The Guardian) – The creation of babies whose DNA has been altered to give them what parents perceive to be the best chances in life has received a cautious green light in a landmark report from a leading UK ethics … Read More
July 10, 2018
Medical Law Review (vol. 26, no. 2, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “The Emergence and Development of Bioethics in the UK” by Ruth Chadwick and Duncan Wilson “The Transmutation of Deference in Medicine: An Ethico-Legal Perspective” by Sarah Devaney … Read More
June 11, 2018
Theology and Science (vol. 16, no. 2, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “In Pursuit of Perfection: The Misguided Transhumanist Vision” by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson “The Technology of Holiness: A Response to Hava Tirosh-Samuelson” by Brian Patrick Green … Read More
May 10, 2018
(The Economist) – IN A recently released documentary,“Take Your Pills”, Leigh, a freckled college senior, sits on her bed and reflects on her relationship with Adderall, a stimulant widely used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a condition that … Read More
May 7, 2018
(The Guardian) – The aims of the transhumanist movement are summed up by Mark O’Connell in his book To Be a Machine, which last week won the Wellcome Book prize. “It is their belief that we can and should eradicate … Read More
May 7, 2018
(MIT Technology Review) – The controversial biohacker Aaron Traywick, who was found dead in a sensory deprivation tank in Washington, DC, on April 29, appears to have been planning human tests of a CRISPR therapy for lung cancer, MIT Technology … Read More
May 7, 2018
(CNBC) – Start-up investor Li Jiang just turned 30, and now he can’t stop thinking about his own mortality. For Jiang, who’s based in San Francisco, living longer isn’t just about eating healthy and exercising regularly. Last month, he cryogenically … Read More
May 4, 2018
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 44, no. 4, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “What Sort of Person Could Have a Radically Extended Lifespan?” by Rebecca Roache “Life-Extending Enhancements and the Narrative Approach to Personal Identity” by Andrea … Read More
May 2, 2018
(The Conversation) – In Brazil, however, patients are thought of as having the “right to beauty.” In public hospitals, plastic surgeries are free or low-cost, and the government subsidizes nearly half a million surgeries every year. As a medical anthropologist, … Read More
May 2, 2018
(Vice News) – Aaron Traywick, the controversial CEO of the biohacking company Ascendance Biomedical, which encouraged people to conduct medical research outside the confines of pharmaceutical companies and academia, died Sunday in Washington, D.C., police confirmed to VICE News Tuesday. … Read More
May 2, 2018
The Southern Journal of Philosophy (vol. 56, no. 1, 2018) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Cognitive Self-Enhancement as a Duty to Oneself: A Kantian Perspective” by Katharina Bauer
April 30, 2018
(Vox) – E. Paul Zehr is a neuroscientist and author of Chasing Captain America, a new book about how advances in biotechnology may lead to the creation of “superhumans,” of the sort depicted in the film Avengers: Infinity War or … Read More
April 16, 2018
(CNN) – This new frontier of doping presented a simple and dark idea: What if there was a way for dopers to never be caught? Now, almost 20 years later, the technology is has finally been used to treat patients … Read More
April 12, 2018
(The Atlantic) – Often going hand in hand with efforts to quantify the body and behaviors through all manners of technology, this hacking ethos relies on the idea that if people can just collect more data to better understand themselves, … Read More
April 4, 2018
(MIT Technology Review) – The MIT Media Lab will sever ties with a brain-embalming company that promoted euthanasia to people hoping for digital immortality through “brain uploads.” The startup, called Nectome, had raised more than $200,000 in deposits from people … Read More
