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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 Tanya A. Christian, EBONY | 09.28.2022

In October of 1990 the U.S. Department of Energy, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), undertook what...

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By Nature Editors, Nature | 09.28.2022

In 1904, Nature printed a speech about eugenics by the statistician Francis Galton. One of the foremost scientists of his...

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By GMWatch, GMWatch | 09.28.2022

Growing failure of Roundup Ready crops provides opportunity to phase them out and adopt new methods and technologies

The cultivation...

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By Daniel Boguslaw, The Intercept | 09.28.2022

As a rapidly advancing climate emergency turns the planet ever hotter, the Dallas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences has a vision: “To...

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By Dana Goldstein, The New York Times | 09.26.2022

The American history curriculum — if you can even call it that — is a slippery thing. Unlike many other...

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By Olivier J. Wouters, PhD; Lucas A. Berenbrok, PharmD, MS; Meiqi He, MS; et al, JAMA Network Open | 09.26.2022

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IMPORTANCE: Drug companies frequently claim that high prices are needed to recoup spending on research and development. If high...

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By Jedidiah Carlson, Science for the People | 09.26.2022

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There has been no shortage of controversies surrounding citation practices in research, and in May 2022, the scientific community...

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By Alison Motluk, The Globe and Mail | 09.23.2022

Earlier this year, I sat on a panel in a university seminar. Toward the end of the session, the subject...