April 13, 2021
(BBC) – In fact, there have been no shortage of surprises in the field. From the rabbits altered to be leaner that inexplicably ended up with much longer tongues to the cattle tweaked to lack horns that were inadvertently endowed … Read More
March 16, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 382, no. 18, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Responding to Covid-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?” by B. Gates “Virtually Perfect? Telemedicine for Covid-19” by J.E. Hollander and B.G. Carr … Read More
March 15, 2021
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 45, no. 2, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Health and Reference Classes” by Sander Werkhoven “Strategies in Abduction: Generating and Selecting Diagnostic Hypotheses” by Donald E Stanley and Rune … Read More
February 18, 2021
(Financial Times) For all the headlines generated by the experiment in Shenzhen, it did not spark a global ethical debate about Crispr, the gene-editing technology that will almost certainly be used to change the course of life. While the world clashed … Read More
February 18, 2021
(Scientific American) CRISPR has many functions; one of these is that it can be used to treat disease. Yet the far-reaching, more fraught promise of this technology—one about which scientists seem at once excited and cautious—lies in its ability to … Read More
February 9, 2021
(The Guardian) – In the past three years, three British women – Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, Leah Cambridge and Melissa Kerr – have died as a result of complications arising from BBLs in Turkey, the most popular destination for UK patients … Read More
February 8, 2021
(Discover) – Ever since computers took shape — first filling rooms, then office desks, then pockets — they have been designed by human minds. Over the years, plenty of people have asked: What would happen if computers designed themselves? Someday … Read More
January 25, 2021
Bioethics (vol. 34, no. 1, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Blurring the Germline: Genome Editing and Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance” by Tim Lewens “Regulating Germline Editing in Assisted Reproductive Technology: An EU Cross-Disciplinary Perspective” by Ana Nordberg, … Read More
January 19, 2021
(Wired) – Jugenburg is a celebrity surgeon, a doctor turned influencer who shares his masterworks with his followers in real time. In his operating room, showmanship and sutures get equal play. Jugenburg seems to revel in the way social media … Read More
January 15, 2021
(BBC) – A German sports doctor has been jailed for nearly five years for masterminding a doping ring for athletes between 2012 and 2019. Mark Schmidt, 42, was also fined €158,000 (£140,000; $190,000) and banned from practising medicine for a … Read More
