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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 Joaquín M. Lara Midkiff, Truthout | 08.07.2022

The repudiation of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey awakens fears around the repercussions of...

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By Robert Reich , LA Progressive | 08.07.2022

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This week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addressed a crowd of thousands of American...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.04.2022

In a search for novel forms of longevity medicine, a biotech company based in Israel says it intends to create...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 08.03.2022

The pigs had been lying dead in the lab for an hour — no blood was circulating in their bodies...

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By María Luisa Paúl, The Washington Post | 08.03.2022

Under Georgia law, fetuses now have “full legal recognition” as living people. That means their parents can claim them as...

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By Daniel F. Silva, The Washington Post | 08.01.2022

This month, a Bloomberg headline labeled the popular Brazilian butt lift (BBL) “one of the deadliest cosmetic surgeries,” echoing similar...

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By Alexis Heng, The Sun Daily | 07.30.2022

Genetic testing has recently been a buzz in Malaysia, with reports of new coronavirus strains being identified through genomic sequencing...

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By Yuting Zhu and Jonathan D. Moreno, The Hastings Center | 07.28.2022

In early April, He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who used gene-editing technology on human embryos born in 2018, was released...