July 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Medical tests using small amounts of blood are being rolled out, achieving what the Silicon Valley startup couldn’t The rise and fall of Theranos—the Silicon Valley startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing but ended dissolved, … Read More
July 26, 2024
(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
July 25, 2024
(Undark) – Few experts dispute that long Covid can be debilitating, or that it warrants careful study. But in interviews with Undark, a number of experts said that it is misleading to frame long Covid as an increasing threat. The … Read More
July 24, 2024
(New York Times) – Progress in the quest to help progeria patients suggests that gene editing techniques may help treat other ultrarare conditions. A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on the horizon. The disease speeds up aging … Read More
July 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. The first gene-edited pig organs ever transplanted … Read More
July 22, 2024
Research Ethics (vol. 20, no. 3, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 19, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – If we’re going to protect ourselves from genetic discrimination, we first have to figure out what it is. Unfortunately, no one has a good handle on how widespread it is, says Yann Joly, director of the … Read More
July 19, 2024
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
July 18, 2024
(BBC) – A drug has increased the lifespans of laboratory animals by nearly 25%, in a discovery scientists hope can slow human ageing too. The treated mice were known as “supermodel grannies” in the lab because of their youthful appearance. … Read More
July 17, 2024
(New York Times) – The kaleidoscopic whirl of colors they recorded is essentially a heat map of brain changes, with the red, orange and yellow hues reflecting a significant departure from normal activity patterns. The blues and greens reflect normal … Read More
July 17, 2024
(Medical Xpress) – Two whole adult human hearts, one healthy and one diseased, have been imaged in unprecedented detail by researchers from UCL and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), providing an invaluable resource for better understanding cardiovascular disease. The … Read More
July 11, 2024
(Wired) – In a livestreamed update on X, Elon Musk and Neuralink executives gave an update on the company’s next study participant—and its next-generation brain implant. A second person will soon receive Neuralink’s experimental brain implant, according to Elon Musk, … Read More
July 9, 2024
(Undark) – One person’s DNA became the centerpiece of a genetic sequence used by biologists the world over. Did he agree to that? To piece the story together, Undark reviewed more than 100 emails, letters, and other digital documents housed … Read More
July 9, 2024
(GEN) – Porteus is a scientific co-founder of CRISPR Therapeutics, the company that launched the exa-cel CRISPR trial that culminated in the approval of Casgevy in December 2023. With the latest companies he has co-founded—first Graphite Bio, now Kamau Therapeutics— … Read More
July 4, 2024
(New York Times) – Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artificial skin to robot faces to protect machinery and mimic human expressiveness. Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that … Read More
July 4, 2024
(Nature) – The United Kingdom has developed its first rules to guide research using human embryo models. Scientists say they are pleased the country has clarified its position on the fast-moving field. The voluntary code of practice, published today, prohibits … Read More
July 2, 2024
(New York Times) – The drug, Kisunla, made by Eli Lilly, is the latest in a new class of treatments that could modestly slow cognitive decline in initial stages of the disease but also carry safety risks. The Food and … Read More
July 2, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 1, no. 1, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Injecting Artificial Intelligence into Medicine” by I.S. Kohane “Why We Support and Encourage the Use of Large Language Models in … Read More
July 1, 2024
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 32, no. 6, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Evaluation of a two-step Model of opportunistic genomic Screening” by Melissa Martyn, et al. “A Framework for the Evaluation and Reporting of … Read More
June 26, 2024
(Nature) – Project covering one-fifth of the country’s population is one of the largest-ever efforts to share results on genetic health risks with research participants. The project is one of the world’s biggest efforts to return genetic results to research … Read More
June 21, 2024
(WBUR) – British pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass led a highly anticipated independent scientific review of gender health services for children in England, commissioned by the National Health Service. Now popularly known as the ‘Cass Review,’ it concludes for most young … Read More
June 20, 2024
(New York Times) – In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway. The lab, about two-thirds the size of a football field, is a data … Read More
June 20, 2024
(Vox) – But there was another major question looming over Lykos (previously known as MAPS public benefit corporation, the biggest force pushing psychedelics toward legalization over the past few decades). It’s a question that had begun to bubble up in the news and which … Read More
June 18, 2024
(Los Angeles Times) – The complication called ARIA has nothing to do with music. It is a term adopted by an influential group of pharmaceutical executives and academic scientists to describe potentially fatal bleeding and swelling in the brain caused by … Read More
June 13, 2024
(NPR) – The psychedelic drug MDMA is near the end of a decades-long effort to enter mainstream medicine but instead of celebrating, supporters now find themselves wondering if the treatment will actually make it to market anytime soon. Last week, … Read More
