Medical Regs & Ethics
The future creeps closer: While two-thirds of Americans say they’d pick an embryo based on genetic profiling, some concerns escalate
Nearly one third of those surveyed even say they would consider going through IVF for the sole purpose of such ...
Sperm donation is no longer anonymous. Where do we go from here?
Recent findings in behavioral science show the role of genetics in shaping certain individual characteristics ...
After demoting a scientist and cutting her pay, University of Pennsylvania makes millions from her mRNA breakthroughs
School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work ...
Viewpoint: Here’s what happens when legislators pander to activists by over-regulating science and medical practice in an ill-advised effort to ‘protect the public’
It is bad enough when unqualified pundits offer dumb opinions about science, but bad legislation can cause real damage. The COVID ...
‘Big Weed’: How today’s cannabis landscape mirrors tobacco companies in the 1950s
OK, marijuana is now legal. So where’s the public health approach? Strictly speaking, marijuana use isn’t fully legal across the ...
Newest Alzheimer’s drug slows disease — but costs over $25,000 per year. Who will pay for it?
The first drug purporting to slow the advance of Alzheimer’s disease is likely to cost the U.S. health care system ...
Viewpoint: ‘Following sensationalism’ — How media distort science, influencing courts and regulators
It’s time for scientific bodies and institutions to more forcefully weigh in when science is too far behind media and ...
CRISPR moonshot: FDA approves first-ever US gene-edited based therapy, Casgevy, to treat sickle cell disease
December 8 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two milestone treatments, Casgevy and Lyfgenia, representing the first cell-based gene ...
‘Warrior gene’: Some people may be genetically wired for aggressiveness. Can we—should we—do something about it?
“Some people have real problems right out of the starting block. We can't dodge the responsibility for social action." ...
CRISPR is cheap, effective and easy to use. That’s why human germline editing scares even some proponents
Crispr technology is based on a rudimentary immune system that Japanese scientists first noticed in bacteria three decades ago ...
Psychedelics could help veterans with PTSD, anxiety and depression. Breakthroughs and dropping of taboos opening new treatment possibilities
Legislative proposals include studies of the effectiveness of using psychedelics to treat PTSD among active-duty servicemembers and veterans ...
GLP podcast/video: Trust in scientists plummets; EU ditches organic ‘Farm to Fork’ plan; Our troubling ‘superhuman’ future?
Americans are losing trust in scientists following the COVID pandemic. How can experts regain the public's support? The European Union ...
Viewpoint: Skeptical take on newly-approved CRISPR sickle cell treatment tool
A gene editing therapy developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics works exceptionally well, yet treatment may not be simple ...
Viewpoint: Center for Genetics and Society advances ‘progressive’, ‘techno-pessimist’ argument against human germline editing
AI is a hot topic that some experts deeply steeped in the AI debate are warning about the social justice ...
USDA under pressure to liberalize regulation of human gene-therapies and gene-editing, so US doesn’t fall further behind other countries
Worries about heritable genetic modifications are subsiding and sponsors should consider the US for regulatory advice and clinical trials ...
Experimental treatment using CRISPR to dramatically lower cholesterol under scrutiny after two patients suffer heart attacks and one dies
Researchers have been able to reduce bad cholesterol in human subjects after injecting them with an experimental gene editing treatment ...
Viewpoint: ‘Risking metastasizing and spreading malignant racist ideologies’ — Social scientists attack Gates-funded initiative to bring AI to the developing world
Announcement of the launch of a new $5 million project to launch new artificial intelligence in low- income and middle- ...
Can hallucinogenic mushrooms help dying patients face death? Synthetic psilocybin is put to the test
A hospital affiliated with Harvard has reopened the door on research with psychedelic drugs to see if mushrooms can help ...
CRISPR gene editing tackles yet another health scourge: High cholesterol
Study shows that gene-editing technology can be used to successfully treat a genetic disorder that increases the risk of heart ...
How Spain emerged as the European epicenter for egg donations
Spain performs more than half of all egg donation treatments across Europe. The country is the largest provider of donor eggs ...
Playing God: Catholic ethical experts caution against ‘superhuman’ genetic future
CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats: Ethicists fixate on this innovation creating “superhumans.” ...
Applying racial and social justice principles to case of Henrietta Lacks and her immortal cell lines
Human cell lines are an instrumental part of basic biomedical research and necessary for the development of vaccines and drugs ...
Can psychedelics like MDMA and magic mushrooms help relieve PTSD symptoms? The Department of Veterans Affairs is determined to find out
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it's committed to studying whether psychedelics are effective treatments for PTSD ...
RFK, Jr. accuses drug companies of ignoring chronic diseases and focusing on ‘money-making infectious diseases’ like measles and COVID, vows to reverse NIH policies if elected
RFK Jr. has suggested without evidence that researchers and pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit to neglect chronic conditions ...
Video: Viewpoint: Vaccine denialist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s growing strength in presidential polls is ‘best showing for polio since Franklin Roosevelt,’ jokes Sarah Silverman
A new poll pits Kennedy, Trump, and Biden in a three-way race for the presidency — the "worst three way ...
Can we cut cost and pain of IVF? Start-up CEO tries out own company’s alternative way to ‘mature’ human eggs in lab dish instead of inside bodies
While life expectancy is getting longer—it has been slowly rising for a hundred years—that’s not true of women’s reproductive life ...
Viewpoint: Breaking taboos or pioneering breakthroughs? Weighing ethics of gene editing of human embryos
The German Ethics Council has now also ruled that inheritable genome editing is fundamentally morally permissible ...
