July 11, 2019
(New Scientist) – Five Russian couples who are deaf want to try the CRISPR gene-editing technique so they can have a biological child who can hear, biologist Denis Rebrikov has told New Scientist. He plans to apply to the relevant … Read More
July 11, 2019
(Fox News) – A mother of a 4-year-old son with special needs is suing a British hospital alleging they failed to test for the condition — otherwise she would’ve had an abortion. Edyta Mordel, 33, of Reading, wants almost $250,000 in compensation for the cost of … Read More
July 11, 2019
(The Guardian) – Midsommar seems to hark back to the horror film’s eugenicist beginnings. It’s no coincidence that the monstrous tropes of horror’s mainstream began to be configured during the rise of eugenics in the United States. Identified as one … Read More
June 24, 2019
(Fox News) – A British judge ordered Friday that an abortion be performed on a mentally disabled woman who is 22 weeks pregnant, despite objections from the woman and her mother. Justice Nathalie Lieven admits in the ruling of the “heartbreaking” … Read More
June 24, 2019
(The Sydney Morning Herald) – That push to science superstardom is yielding dividends. Last year China overtook the US as the world’s largest producer of scientific papers. And it is propelled, says Nie, by a number of key traits in … Read More
June 20, 2019
(Nature) – But he had begun studying biology in the army in the hope of learning more about the disease. He found out about a process called preimplantation genetic diagnosis or PGD. By conceiving through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and … Read More
June 17, 2019
(Science) – In a bold rejection of the widespread sentiment—and regulations in many countries—that no one should alter the genome of a human embryo and transfer it to a woman, Russian geneticist Denis Rebrikov last week went public with his … Read More
June 12, 2019
(Nature) – A Russian scientist says he is planning to produce gene-edited babies, an act that would make him only the second person known to have done this. It would also fly in the face of the scientific consensus that … Read More
June 11, 2019
(TIME) – The press’ fascination with the science of ancestry began long before such DNA tests were available. In the 1920s, researchers began to explore the development of genealogical tests — research that, not coincidentally, occurred in an era of … Read More
June 7, 2019
(The New Yorker) – But it is important to understand that the alarm over abortion as eugenics is a decoy of sorts. A deeper, more troubling argument that is now gathering force is tucked more quietly into Thomas’s invocation of … Read More
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