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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...

an anatomically correct heart
By Angelica Peebles, Bloomberg | 05.06.2022

Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator,
CC BY 2.5 >, via Wikimedia Commons

Even after decades of drug breakthroughs aimed at...

police officer using a laptop
By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press | 05.06.2022

A New York court halted the use of a DNA crimefighting tool that has helped crack cold cases and put...

Hand holding stethoscope on colorful globe
By Peter Ward, The Guardian | 05.05.2022

Photo by Jernej Furman on Flickr

Every year millions of people cross borders to undergo medical treatments that are either...

gloved hands with a test tube of blood
By Daniel Navon, Scientific American | 05.05.2022

Imagine you are an expectant parent. Just a couple of months into your pregnancy, you opt for an easy genetic...

Virus
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.04.2022

The pig heart transplanted into an American patient earlier this year in a landmark operation carried a porcine virus that...

a woman holds up a sign protesting sterilization of women
By Crystal Qian and Elizabeth Cheng, The Epic [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.03.2022

"Women welfare rights activists holding signs protesting
proposed forced sterilization bill outside Tennessee courthouse, 1971,”
Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF)...

cancer cells
By Alice Klein, New Scientist | 05.03.2022

A tiny change in our DNA that occurred after we evolved away from other primates has made us more prone...

IVF photo
By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation | 05.03.2022

Photo by Pritamprajapati9 via wikimedia

The fertility industry generates approximately US$8 billion in revenue annually and plays a role in...