FDA Takes One Regulatory Shackle Off 23andMe Gene Testing
Agency still treats consumers like idiots
Genetics
Much Hyped Theranos Diagnostics: Is It Vaporware?
Even worse, CEO Holmes evidently wants the FDA to regulate competing products
Hey Bioethicists, Stop Treating Us Like Dim-Witted Children!
Let us decide for ourselves if genetic ignorance is bliss.
Ohio Likely to Ban Abortion of Fetuses Diagnosed With Down Syndrome
Since such bans are largely unenforceable, the measure is more mechanism for pro-life political signaling than anything else.
Easy New Gene Editing Technique CRISPR Conjures Fears of a Brave New World
Is it immoral to slow progress toward curing diseases and creating more environmentally benign products?
Ronald Bailey Hangs Out WIth the Bioethicists at the BEINGS 2015 Summit
Is life better than death; health better disease; wealth better than poverty? Opinions vary.
Block Biotech Progress or Embrace It? Bioethicists Debate What's to Come.
Is progress itself an ethical obligation? Opinions vary.
CORRECTION: Ancestry.com Hands Over Client DNA Test Results to Cops Witho?u?t? a Warrant*
A pretty good way to discourage people from using gene testing services
"Knowledge is power," says Angelina Jolie Pitt with Respect to Genetic Testing
The FDA disagrees and prefers ignorance
FDA Regulators Ease Just a Tiny Bit Their Stranglehold on Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Testing company 23andMe expresses its gratitude
New Company Practices Virtual Eugenics
GenePeeks aids parents in their quest for healthier babies by reducing the odds of structural or genetic birth defects.
Should Parents Be Allowed To Know Their Fetus Will Get Alzheimer's?
The moral case for designer babies
The FDA Stifles the Advance of Modern Molecular Medicine
Wall Street Journal review of the new book, The Cure in the Code, by Peter Huber
Let My Genes Go! And Leave 23andMe Alone.
Regulators evidently fear an imminent outbreak of DIY mastectomies.
FDA Warns Company to Stop Selling Genetic Testing Kits
Don't have the proper permission
UK Environment Secretary Attacks Foes of GM Golden Rice
Says opponents are "wicked" and activism could result in blindness and death of third-world children
Scientists Find Gene Mutation Connected to Eating Disorders
Bulimia and Anorexia may have biological markers
Does the Royal Baby Deserve Genetic Privacy?
Revelations about the British princeling's ancestry should remind us that DNA testing is no big deal.
Researchers Find Two New Genetic Mutations Connected to Epilepsy
Had never before been linked to the disease
The Royal Baby and Genetic Privacy
Is it a problem to learn your ancestry from a newspaper story?
Should We Patent Human Genes?
The Supreme Court ponders the intersection of biology and intellectual property
