The mega-ethical question of who and what is a human being is brought to one’s mind with increasing frequency by the accelerating advances in scientific technology. As human beings increasingly apply ...
Human genetic engineering has always been the stuff of science-fiction novels and blockbuster Hollywood films. Except that it is no longer confined to books and movies. Scientists and doctors are ...
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Is engineering a ‘super’ human being a good idea?
According to reports in The Wall Street Journal, billionaires in Silicon Valley are trying to expand the frontiers of genetic engineering in the eternal quest to create genetically engineered human ...
What if you could screen embryos for diseases before they became babies? What if you had the power to choose the traits your baby would have? Would you use it? These practically polar opposite ...
Students, faculty and staff are invited to hear Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, Distinguished University Professor and director of the Law-Medicine Center, present "The ...
Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutations and variants that is ...
Want a bespoke baby? Check the beauty, brains, or brawn boxes on the embryo order form. Genetic tinkering is no longer science fiction — it’s a market without legal guidelines or societal buy-in. But ...
Newly licensed intellectual property enables genetic induction of early meiosis, further strengthening Gameto’s best-in-class platform for modeling human ovarian development and disease ...
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