Medical Regs & Ethics
Viewpoint: Scientific community puts pressure on Germany to repeal law blocking reproductive technology and research on embryos
The scientific community is launching a renewed attack on the controversial law of the German Embryo Protection Act ...
Viewpoint: ‘Body-tracking data is so much a part of our daily lives that we sometimes forget it can be used against us’
With the changing legal landscape, privacy experts point out that data could be used to criminalize people seeking abortions ...
Viewpoint: Using CRISPR to cure diseases is an ethical tightrope — Here’s a Jewish perspective
CRISPR has the potential to treat or even cure a gamut of inherited diseases which have long evaded researchers ...
Can this DNA test predict your chances of getting addicted to opioids? FDA approval stirs controversy
Using a swab inside the cheek and a sophisticated computer algorithm, a DNA test recently approved by federal regulators promises to ...
Viewpoint: ‘For most young people, a medical pathway is not the best way to manage gender-related distress’ — English rethink puberty blockers for youth in wake of controversial ‘Cass Report’
Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates ...
Viewpoint: Eugenics revival — From anti-immigration ‘Great Replacement Theory’ to Silicon Valley libertarian ‘pro-natalism’, ‘racial science’ is gaining a stronghold in the US
Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar ...
Addressing racial disparities in health research: $3 billion ‘All of Us’ genetic diversity project’s ‘trove of results’
A big federal research project aimed at reducing racial disparities in genetic research has unveiled the program's first major results ...
Viewpoint: 25 vs 0.4 COVID deaths per 100,000 people — Trump supporters suffer higher mortality vs rest of America as anti-vaccine movement shifts from left to right
Anti-vaccine activism never had a political affiliation: the left is concerned with avoiding anything chemical, & the right opposes mandates ...
Superintelligence, superlongevity and superhappiness: How billionaire transhumanists want to converge humanity and artificial intelligence
Many prominent people in the tech industry have talked about the increasing convergence between humans and machines in coming decades ...
New England Journal of Medicine and eugenics: Journal chronicles fraught history covering sterilization of immigrants, poor people and those with disabilities
In 1923, Boston City Hospital chose Dr. William Mayo, already famous for the work of his Minnesota clinic, to speak ...
Viewpoint: ‘Baby Olivia’ scandal — Republican legislators lie to kids about fetal development in anti-abortion propaganda video
“Meet Baby Olivia,” a three-minute video produced by the anti-abortion group Live Action, is the foundation of the latest bill that ...
Groundbreaking pineapple-flavored spray vaccine could prevent urinary tract infections for up to 9 years
A breakthrough almost decade-long study of a spray vaccine offers promise for billions of women who suffer from urinary tract ...
Are GMOs causing an increase in allergies?
The potential for allergies from foods with genetically modified ingredients is no higher than that in any food, including organics ...
‘Race’, anti-racism and biology
Using biology to determine the racial ancestry of human remains is racist. Except when it’s done in the name of ...
Challenging bioethical taboos: Chinese scientist He Jiankui who modified the genes of human embryos to protect them from HIV reopens his lab
Chinese researcher He Jiankui revealed to the Mainichi Shimbun that he has resumed research on human embryo genome editing ...
$4.25 million: World’s most expensive drug targets genetic disease that disables and kills toddlers. Will anyone pay for it?
There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs more than the average person will earn in ...
Gametes? Embryo? Fetus? There are 17 timepoints when a human life might begin
I wish that I could stop reposting this essay – I do so whenever limitations on women’s reproductive rights become ...
Mystery ‘Havana flu’ dizziness linked to Russian sonic weaponry
A mysterious illness that has affected US diplomats in recent years has been linked to a Russian intelligence unit ...
The radical conservative case for genetic enhancement
The conclusion of the sexual revolution is about to be written ...
‘Diet weed’: More than 10% of high school seniors take ‘loophole’ legal drug delta-8 THC. What are the consequences?
Delta-8 THC, sometimes referred as "diet weed" or "weed lite," is unregulated in many states thanks to a loophole in ...
Ancient African shrub ibogaine causes psychedelic hallucinations — and can reduce anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Why is it restricted in the US?
Stephen Jones suffers from a traumatic brain injury, but a psychedelic called ibogaine eased his suffering ...
Did you hear the story about the GMO that nearly destroyed the world?
An old myth has resurfaced that a GMO almost destroyed all life on Earth — but what's the real story? ...
Parents’ Bill of Rights: Vaccine wars heat up in states allowing exemptions for schoolchildren
Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a ...
Ozempic for life? Weight loss drugs are meant to be used long term. What happens if you stop taking them?
Those who have used new obesity drugs like Wegovy to lose weight and improve health are wondering what happens if ...
Hairy questions: As scientists edge closer to resurrecting mammoths, a host of ethical and scientific issues arise
Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in Dallas, announced [March 6] that it has produced a line of Asian elephant ...
Scientists losing uphill battle to prevent measles spread
Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in ...
What do Muslim leaders have to say about ethics of germline editing to prevent diseases?
Dr Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin and Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin give ethical analysis of germline genome editing based on Islamic ...
