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Medical geneticists and genetic counselors have an often complicated and at times tense relationship with people with disabilities, their families...
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The Biopolitical Times reported this month that the California stem cell and gene...
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INTRODUCTION
Research on the manufacture of egg-like and sperm-like cells for the purpose of...
Doctors, data scientists and hospital executives believe artificial intelligence may help solve what until now have been intractable problems. AI...
We’ve been discussing the possibility of genetic enhancement, and the ethics of such technology, for some time now. Many people...
In early 2017, a neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital called Timothy Yu began work on the most ambitious project of...
The headline on the cover of the San Francisco Business Times told it all.
“Running on Empty: What do you...
The road to gene therapies for genetic disorders has been long — and expensive — but the field could soon...
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I'm a philosopher with a specialization in bioethics. My work is at the intersection of policy and...
Scientists have developed a way to sift through millions of differences in a person’s genetic blueprint to detect those that...