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Human embryo

Synthetic mouse embryos

Assisted Reproduction

Researchers Create Artificial Eggs, Chimeric Sperm, and Synthetic Embryos

All of these advances are in mice for now, but maybe these breakthroughs can one day be adapted as human therapies.

Ronald Bailey | 8.5.2022 4:05 PM

Gene-editing jailbird

Genetic Engineering

Rogue Chinese Genome Editor Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

He Jiankui's moral failings should not be used as an excuse to delay a technology that could prevent inheritable diseases.

Ronald Bailey | 12.31.2019 2:55 PM

Better babies through biotechnology

Gene Editing

Genetically Modified Babies Are Ethically OK

A U.K. bioethicist makes the case for deploying CRISPR gene-editing to modify human embryos in the next two years.

Ronald Bailey | 11.26.2019 10:15 AM

Can you hear me know?

Human embryo

Russian Researcher Plans To Gene-Edit Embryos To Cure Deafness

Is that kind of gene-editing unethical?

Ronald Bailey | 7.18.2019 3:35 PM

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Science

Choosing Smart Embryos Isn't Immoral

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.

Ronald Bailey | 2.14.2019 6:00 AM

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CRISPR

Should We Be Worried About How Gene-Edited Kids Will Affect Future Generations?

A new international commission will consider the pros and cons of human genome editing.

Ronald Bailey | 1.25.2019 11:15 AM

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CRISPR

First Genome-Edited Babies?

If it's safe, then it's ethical. No need for a global moratorium.

Ronald Bailey | 11.26.2018 2:35 PM

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CRISPR

Don't Overregulate CRISPR Genome Editing

"Governments should follow the principle of regulatory parsimony," two bioethicists argue.

Ronald Bailey | 4.19.2018 5:00 PM

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Science

It's OK to Edit Your Kids' Genes

Ronald Bailey | 10.15.2017 6:00 AM

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Designer Babies

Breakthrough: Human Embryos Successfully and Safely Gene-Edited

Anti-designer baby bioethicists call for "an immediate global ban."

Ronald Bailey | 8.2.2017 4:01 PM

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Designer Babies

First Gene-Edited Human Embryos in the U.S.

Breakthrough that could cure genetic diseases before embryos are implanted in their mothers' wombs.

Ronald Bailey | 7.27.2017 2:00 PM

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Human embryo

Skin Cells Into Babies: Bioethicists Freakout Again

Will most babies be created using in vitro gametogenesis in 40 years?

Ronald Bailey | 5.17.2017 12:15 PM

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Designer Babies

Of Artificial Mice and Men Embryos

Creation of artificial mouse embryos provokes bioethical handwringing about designer babies

Ronald Bailey | 3.3.2017 3:30 PM

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Designer Babies

'Designer Baby' Scaremongering Never Gets Old, Does It?

Swedish researcher denounced by bioconservatives for using CRISPR genome-editing on human embryos

Ronald Bailey | 9.22.2016 12:15 PM

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Designer Babies

Designer Babies and Human Enhancement: Ronald Bailey Lectures in Moscow

Also most babies will be created using skin cells and the bioethics of radical life extension

Ronald Bailey | 8.30.2016 1:25 PM

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Organ transplants

Human-Animal Chimeras Are O.K., Argues Ronald Bailey on NPR's Airtalk

National Institutes of Health bioethicists agree with me and lift research moratorium

Ronald Bailey | 8.8.2016 12:18 PM

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Gene Editing

Mom and Dad and Mom Know Best

Three-parent babies are now possible. Congress should get out of the way.

Ronald Bailey | 5.1.2016 12:00 PM

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CRISPR

Genetically Modifying Human Embryos Is OK, Say U.K. Regulators

Researchers will use CRISPR gene-editing technique to explore how human embryos develop.

Ronald Bailey | 2.1.2016 11:40 AM

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CRISPR

CRISPR Gene-Editing Is Scientific "Breakthrough of the Year"

"If scientists can dream of a genetic manipulation, CRISPR can now make it happen"

Ronald Bailey | 12.21.2015 12:17 PM

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Policy

Gene-Editing Human Embryos Is Ethical

Bioethicists and scientists who say otherwise are wrong.

Ronald Bailey | 5.1.2015 10:30 AM

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IVF

Who Owns Frozen Human Embryos?: Nick Loeb vs. Sofia Vergara

A contract is a contract, but a more generous spirit might relent

Ronald Bailey | 4.30.2015 4:35 PM

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Science & Technology

Nobel Laureates Call For Halting Scientific and Ethical Progress

Permissionless innovation works best for both scientific and moral progress.

Ronald Bailey | 4.10.2015 10:51 AM

Science & Technology

Finally, Cloned Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Ronald Bailey | 5.16.2013 8:01 AM

Science & Technology

Made-to-Order Embryos for Sale—No Problem With That

Ronald Bailey | 4.23.2013 3:47 PM

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