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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 Loretta J. Ross, CounterPunch | 07.01.2022

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The Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the right to an abortion is an act of...

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By Ganes Kesari, Forbes | 06.30.2022

One in four couples in developing countries is impacted by infertility. About 48.5 million couples experience infertility worldwide. Today, infertility...

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By ASRM Center for Policy and Leadership , The American Society for Reproductive Medicine | 06.29.2022

Today, the ASRM Center for Policy and Leadership (CPL) released a new report entitled State Abortion Trigger Laws: Potential Implications...

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By Nicolas Gutierrez C., The New Scientist | 06.29.2022

MORE than a billion people live in China, but researchers in the country have proposed the creation of a healthcare...

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By Sonia M. Suter, Slate | 06.29.2022

Much of the focus on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has rightly been directed at the...

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By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 06.29.2022

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Author’s note: the Olsen and Rooks opinions use the term “pre-embryo.”...

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By George Maliha, Ravi B. Parikh , Scientific American | 06.29.2022

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Who is responsible when AI harms someone?

A California jury may soon have to...

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By Abby Ohlheiser and Hana Kiros , The MIT Technology Review | 06.28.2022

In the hours and days after the US Supreme Court announced its ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion, tech...