Medical Regs & Ethics
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 ...
Biosecurity blunders? Questions raised about UK GMO lab experiments
MailOnline has learned of six lab incidents where genetically modified organisms (GMO) have escaped containment in the past five years ...
Breakthrough CRISPR treatment for sickle cell anemia up for FDA approval
Advisers to the US regulatory agency will examine the safety profile of a CRISPR-based treatment for sickle-cell disease ...
Making eggs without ovaries: How skin-based egg cells could transform human reproduction
Matt Krisiloff, chief executive officer of Conception Biosciences, has dozens of scientists working at a lab in Berkeley, Calif., trying ...
Science vs. equity: Debate over future of gene editing intensifies
Turning to genetic modification could be a solution for a number of genetic diseases including sickle cell anemia, muscular dystrophy ...
If ‘race’ doesn’t exist as many social scientists claim, how can artificial intelligence determine it with unerring accuracy from chest x-rays?
Race is not predicted using the physical structure in x-ray images but is embedded in the grayscale pixel intensities ...
Aligned with views of new House Speaker Mike Johnson, 60% of Americans believe Biblical creation myth or that God guided evolution
A majority of Republicans say divine creation created humans; just under half of Democrats say that there was no divine ...
Viewpoint: Vaccine-rejectionist Jessica Biel’s foray into selling children’s medicine reinforces why she should stick to acting
The deluge of the use of the term "natural" for product promotion continues unabated. But perhaps it's getting stale because ...
LSD is fast-emerging as a treatment for depression. Does it work?
Researchers state MDMA and 'magic' mushrooms also have shown promise in treating conditions like anxiety and PTSD ...
Defining death: Does cessation of consciousness or the failure of key organs mark the end of life?
Where is the line between life and death? Does the answer change if the person asking is not a philosopher ...
GLP podcast/video: ‘GMO’ probiotic may prevent hangovers; Surrogacy turns women into ‘children factories’? The case for drug patents
Biotech startup Zbiotics says its genetically engineered bacterium can reduce the risk of hangovers. Is there solid science behind the ...
Biotechnology timeline: Humans have manipulated genes since the ‘dawn of civilization’
The history of biotechnology shows how humans have been manipulating nature for our benefit for a long time—and how modern ...
‘Crime of insincerity’: What happens when researchers publish scientific results they don’t believe in?
Scientific publication can be a constraining, flattening, and maddening process—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing ...
Viewpoint: Young far-right activists embrace ‘scientific racism’
Viewpoint: The pseudoscience of race provides both a justification of hierarchies and an enemy to rail against ...
