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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...

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By Taylor Lambert, CBC | 10.07.2022

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Sporting short-cropped hair and a neutral expression, the man in the picture stares straight ahead.

He's 25, but could...

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By Ximena Conde, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 10.06.2022

The City of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical experiments a University of Pennsylvania faculty member of 50...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 10.05.2022

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In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing to...

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By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 10.05.2022

In the world of surrogacy and modern family-building options, Michigan has been notorious for having the worst laws in the country...

Françoise Baylis
By Cameron Graham, Podcast or Perish | 10.03.2022

Prof. Françoise Baylis is a renowned bioethicist and recipient of this year’s Killam Prize in the humanities. Her work on...

a fertility clinic with an exam table
By Debbie Kitcher-Jones, BioNews | 10.03.2022

On 23 September the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published findings from its review of consumer law compliance in the...

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By Jonathan Matthews and Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 10.02.2022

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As governments around the world are lobbied by industry with claims gene editing can deliver rapid...

a rainbow of vials with DNA in them
By Grace Wade, New Scientist | 09.29.2022

Genetic tests that predict the efficacy of certain cancer treatments aren’t as effective for people of African or Asian ancestry...