Anti-technology activists have blocked the adoption of Golden Rice, which is genetically enhanced to produce the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene, for over two decades.
Gene-editing human embryos may now be a reality.
(Don't) hold your genetically enhanced horses.
The study found only small links between social media use and users' well-being.
The legendary atheist and evolutionary biologist argues that truth shouldn't bend to faith or fashionable politics.
A lawsuit against the genomics company "imposes top-down restrictions" rather than "establishing clear rules" or "letting companies equip individuals with better tools to manage their privacy," says one expert.
And you shouldn't be panicked into doing it either.
Collecting and analyzing newborns' blood could allow the state to surveil people for life.
The Hamas-embraced idea that Jews have no place in Israel fosters extremism on both sides.
No, it's not ethical to keep them from potentially lifesaving information about their babies—and themselves.
Mendel had a history of run-ins with the state.
Remembering the world’s first geneticist, and a tax protester to boot
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That horse has left the barn.
New technologies mean new crimesolving techniques—and new threats to privacy and liberty.
We already give our kids music lessons, braces, and tutoring. Why not also give them better genes?
"If my kids lived in Africa, I'd say, 'Go for it as quickly as possible,'" says researcher.
It would be deeply immoral to require parents to select for particular traits, but it is also wrong to deny them the chance to make life easier for their children.
If Times editors don't want to learn about their genetics, then they simply shouldn't take the tests.
Companies should be applauded, not criticized, for working to identify the genetic roots of diseases that afflict humanity.
On sale now by Veritas Genetics, but likely to be the list price in a year or two.
The good news is that anti-technology activists are unlikely to succeed in imposing a global moratorium.
When genetic testing results become a tool for law enforcement
There is no compelling ethical reason to limit this exercise of reproductive liberty.
Is it genes, or have we "started building a stupidity-inducing environment"?
A bioethicist argues that the genetic testing company is fostering pseudoscientific bigotry by urging customers to pick a soccer team based on their ancestry.
Do you have a reasonable expectation of genetic privacy under the Fourth Amendment?
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur says cryptocurrencies, virtual reality, and mobile devices are helping individuals escape failed institutions.
Worried about your genetic privacy? Then don't take the tests.
FDA head Scott Gottlieb overturns Obama's ban on direct-to-consumer genetic testing.
Should your life insurance company be prohibited from requiring you to take the test?
Destroying the idea of racial purity one tiki torcher at a time
A work-around for the FDA's ban on direct-to-consumer genetic testing?
Bioethicists in Britain say yes. But there are no such limits in the U.S. yet.
Even if genetic testing is just brightly colored signage, it still has the potential to improve health outcomes.
Still forbidden to tell customers nearly 90 percent of what the company used to be able to share
I don't want to have a "conversation" with regulators; I want them to get the hell out of the way
It's way too early to start putting people like me in jail based on our genomes
Go slow and let more people suffer and die
While we wait for a vaccine, GMO mosquitoes are here now to help control the outbreak.
A scitech research and policy roundup for January 6, 2016
I'm a bioethicist, and I am here to help slow down scientific and medical progress
George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen suggests that it might be.
"If scientists can dream of a genetic manipulation, CRISPR can now make it happen"
A "relatively common" genetic mutation may trigger poor impulse control, especially when drinking.
Agency still treats consumers like idiots
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