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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 Staff, Gen-ethisches Netzwerk e.V. | 08.26.2022

The past experiences of Indigenious communitys with participating in genetic research have been predominatly negative. Therefore, Native American scientists like...

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By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 08.26.2022

Human genome editing and lab-grown eggs that could theoretically allow same-sex couples to have biological children are among the anticipated...

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By Sonia M. Suter and Laura Hercher, STAT | 08.25.2022

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that struck down the constitutional right to abortion guaranteed...

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By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 08.24.2022

In a first in its 18-year history, the California stem cell agency has begun posting on its website a list...

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By Ellen Trachman, Above The Law | 08.24.2022

Earlier this month, California Representatives Adam Schiff and Judy Chu introduced the Equal Access to Reproductive Care Act, a...

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By David Dodge, The New York Times | 08.23.2022

During her 20-week pregnancy ultrasound last month, a woman living near the Utah-Idaho border learned she had a major rupture...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 08.23.2022

The way we make babies could be about to change. Maybe. 

An embryo forms when sperm meets egg. But what...