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A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises questions about the ethics of genetic enhancement.

The company, Heliospect Genomics, has worked with more than a dozen couples undergoing...

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the country on an ethical precipice. The newly added language appears to position the country as the first to explicitly permit...

IN THE FALL OF 2016, I gave a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton titled “Are Robots...

Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...

Dr. He Jiankui in his lab
By Rebecca Megson-Smith and Eben Kirksey , Transforming Society | 08.16.2021

In this episode, Rebecca Megson-Smith talks to Eben Kirksey, American anthropologist and Associate Professor at Alfred Deakin Institute in Melbourne...

2 Indian doctors performing surgery
By Amiya Kumar Kushwaha, Asian News International | 08.16.2021

Photo by Sadasiv Swain on Flickr

A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Delhi High Court seeking to...

pregnant woman in a pink dress
By Anne Else, Newsroom | 08.16.2021

Agreeing to be a birth mother in a surrogacy arrangement is a precious gift to people wanting a child. But...

row of books
By Bri Lee, The Age | 08.13.2021

The two most famous English dystopian novels — Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 — battle like...

man doing gene therapy
By Editorial, Nature | 08.12.2021

More than 200 phase 2 and 3 gene therapy trials are currently underway, which could translate into up to 40...

group protesting abortion bans
By Destiny Lopez, Truthout | 08.12.2021

Congress just took a historic step forward for racial, economic and reproductive justice 45 years in the making. Every year...

pill bottles with pills spilled out in front
By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | 08.12.2021

To several U.S. senators, it looked wasteful, even outrageous. Every year, taxpayers pay for at least $750 million worth of...

By Madeline Verniero, The Regulatory Review | 08.10.2021

As of 2018, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has resulted in the births of approximately 8 million babies. IVF has also ...