Should Parents Be Allowed To Know Their Fetus Will Get Alzheimer's?
The moral case for designer babies
Bioethics
Let My Genes Go! And Leave 23andMe Alone.
Regulators evidently fear an imminent outbreak of DIY mastectomies.
Presidential Bioethics Commission: Need More Gene Privacy Laws
Legal to grab a DNA specimen off someone unwittingly and have it tested in half of states
Deliberate Breeding of 'Ethical' People is a Moral Obligation
Claims Professor Julian Savulescu of Oxford University
Is Assisted Reproduction Too Risky for Kids?
The bioethics of in vitro fertilization and birth defects
The Case for Enhancing People
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey argues for using biotech, nanotech, and infotech to enhance human physical, intellectual, and emotional capabilities
Is Transhumanism Coercive?
Forcing humanity to remain relatively stupid and sick doesn't make us freer
Fresh (Human) Eggs for Sale
Women can sell their eggs to people who want to make babies. Why can't they sell them to researchers who want to save lives?
Egg Recall Hatches More Regulations
More FDA regulations don't always mean greater food safety.
From Yuck to Yippee!
What this year's Nobel Prize for a test tube baby pioneer tells us about the moral endorsement of technology.
Live Forever, Or Die Trying
Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Weiner surveys the state of immortality research.
Who's Afraid of Synthetic Biology?
Don't let fears about frankenmicrobes halt promising research.
The Presidential Commission on Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life
Obama's new bioethics czar just wants us all to get along.
Radical Life Extension and the Problem of Malthusian Hells
Is living longer in an overcrowded world better than the alternative?
Bioethics and the Progressive Neocons
Some progressives have progressed so far that they've become technophobic reactionaries.
