Diana Fleischman: Are Designer Babies The Future?
Evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman discusses IVF, artificial genetic selection, and her unique take on the Ethan Hawke/Uma Thurman movie, Gattaca.
Evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman discusses IVF, artificial genetic selection, and her unique take on the Ethan Hawke/Uma Thurman movie, Gattaca.
Potentially good news for the nearly 100,000 Americans on the transplant waiting list.
Malaria is making a comeback in the United States. Mosquitos might be part of the solution.
Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.
“I think the Chestnut is an example of an interventionist approach,” says scientist Jared Westbrook. “We might have some capabilities and responsibilities to correct some of the problems that we created.”
One step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis?
The eventual goal is human organ transplantation.
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Gene drives could spread this beneficial trait through wild mosquito populations.
He Jiankui's moral failings should not be used as an excuse to delay a technology that could prevent inheritable diseases.
Can they do it fast enough to stop the African swine fever apocalypse?
We already give our kids music lessons, braces, and tutoring. Why not also give them better genes?
Despite bioethical handwringing, they pose no special risks to future generations
Why should an international panel of experts get to decide if you will be allowed to gene-edit your kids?
A case of scientifically absurd regulatory hyper-precaution
Malthusian predictions of global famines keep receding.
The agency admits that its new bioengineered food regs are "not expected to have any benefits to human health or the environment."
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An NPR report on "three-parent babies" in Ukraine provokes bioethical handwringing.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will reportedly approve a GMO virus to fight citrus greening disease.
The USDA just dumped Obama administration's proposed ridiculous biotech crop regulations; the FDA should quickly follow suit.
Because Congress requires the FDA to come up with a "frankenfish" labeling scheme
Anti-designer baby bioethicists call for "an immediate global ban."
Breakthrough that could cure genetic diseases before embryos are implanted in their mothers' wombs.
On the other hand, Google's Verily is debugging Fresno.
An extraordinary new documentary on genetically modified foods, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, pushes back against GMO fearmongering.
Will most babies be created using in vitro gametogenesis in 40 years?
Cures for HIV/AIDS and specifically targeted antibiotics
"If DNA is a drug, then all life on Earth is high."
Due to FDA ban parents must resort to treatments abroad in order to have a healthy baby
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Moms: Get a clue-organic wines are carcinogens.
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
"We are now at the dawn of the gene-editing age."
Researchers will use CRISPR gene-editing technique to explore how human embryos develop.
Activists hope that consumers will misinterpret GMO ingredient taglines as "warning" labels
Preliminary forensic analysis suggests intentional data manipulation
A scitech research and policy round up for January 8, 2016
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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"
Anticipating the amazing innovations made possible by CRISPR
Bioethicists are again trying to stand athwart progress, yelling stop
Is it immoral to slow progress toward curing diseases and creating more environmentally benign products?
So argues Eugene Volokh, albeit with a bit more subtlety.
Preempts costly state mandatory labeling laws