Medical Regs & Ethics
Birth control pill approved for over-the-counter sale with no age restriction, available early next year
Federal regulators on [July 13] approved the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill in a landmark decision that will soon ...
Making a new person from skin or blood cells — but no egg and sperm?’ Scientists debate ethics of ‘synthetic human reproduction’
Called in vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, it promises to someday provide a cure for many types of infertility ...
GLP podcast and video: Why so many nutrition studies are wrong; Steve Kirsch—tech entrepreneur turned anti-vaccine guru; Confidence makes you seem smarter
Much of the nutrition research that attracts media attention is deeply flawed. A new study explains why. Silicon Valley tech ...
First person to receive genetically-modified pig heart transplant died two months later. What have we learned from this experiment?
[T]he eventual heart failure in the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart into a human patient ...
Ethical debate escalates over propriety of 14-day limit on lab-grown embryos
Embryo-like structures made using human stem cells could enable research that is not currently possible using natural embryos ...
Synthetic human embryos made from stem cells? Research into artificial monkey embryos leads the way
In January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first genome-edited ...
Newly-approved Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi slows mental decline — but high cost poses multi-billion dollar challenge for Medicare
The FDA has just granted traditional approval to Leqembi (lecanemab), an anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, after granting ...
6 fake news websites stoking fear about crops grown from genetically-engineered seeds
"Fake news" may be new to most people, but not to followers of the anti-GMO debate. Here are some of ...
GLP podcast and video: 10 myths about modern farming, debunked; New malaria and polio vaccines could save thousands of lives
Many harmful myths about farming persist on social media. Let's explore some of the most common falsehoods about agriculture you're ...
Will science ever be able to create an artificial womb?
In the coming years, the obstacles to ectogenesis --development outside of a mother from fertilization to full-term infancy-- will be ...
Podcast: Future fertility — In the coming world of synthetic embryos, can regulation keep up?
Synthetic human embryos: can the law keep pace with the science? – podcast ...
A new malaria vaccine could save thousands of lives in Ghana. Here’s everything you need to know about it
Ghana has become the first country in the world to approve the highly anticipated R21 malaria vaccine that could save ...
No need for sperm or eggs: Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells
Exclusive: Breakthrough could aid research into genetic disorders but raises serious ethical and legal issues ...
The EU Parliament pushed forward draft legislation positioned to be the West’s first set of comprehensive AI regulations
Advances in artificial intelligence this year have rocked the tech industry, triggering calls from politicians, consumer groups and AI executives themselves for ...
Viewpoint: The National Science Foundation has launched a pilot project to track the ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ of people in science, engineering and math careers. Is that constructive?
If you earn a doctorate, a federal agency wants to know if you’re gay, trans, ‘queer’ or ‘genderqueer.’ ...
Viewpoint: After years of yo-yo dieting, Ozempic helped me lose 40 pounds. I’m still debating if it was worth it
Opinion: I lost 40 pounds on Ozempic. But I’m left with even more questions ...
Two malaria vaccines are now being distributed in Africa. Here are the hurdles plaguing the lifesaving drugs
Malaria kills half a million people a year in Africa. We can prevent that — if we act fast enough ...
Who bankrolled the early days of ‘race science’? And who backs that movement today?
Wickliffe Draper spent his inheritance helping to skew the science of human difference. That mission continues ...
Viewpoint: What are the social factors shaping science?
The rise in science advocacy raises important questions regarding how science mobilization can both defend science and promote its use ...
If life legally begins at conception, can fetuses be employees?
How could a fetus be a person if abortion is legal? But now that abortion rights are no longer federally ...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant approved for human trials by the FDA
Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink said May 25 that it got approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ...
GLP podcast & video: How activism threatens technological innovation; Why mosquitoes only bite some people; Combating RFK Jr.’s scientific misinformation
Activist groups effectively use fear-based PR campaigns to drive pesticides and other important products off the market. What can scientists ...
550 children and counting: Danish sperm donor who lied to fertility clinics is banned for creating an ‘unwanted kinship network’
A court in the Netherlands ruled that a man who fathered at least 550 children in the past 16 years ...
Viewpoint: BMJ editorial on ethical quandaries stirred by human gene editing — ‘Adopting a purely scientific view risks ignoring ethical, societal, and equity considerations’
Adopting a purely scientific view of human genome editing risks ignoring ethical, societal, and equity considerations ...
GLP podcast and video: Glyphosate in Goldfish crackers? COVID vaccines are not in our food; Does marijuana cause schizophrenia?
A viral Facebook post recently alleged that Goldfish crackers contain dangerous amounts of the weedkiller glyphosate. Is there any science ...
Would you donate some of your eggs to a stranger if it means you could freeze and keep half of them — for free?
Freeze-and-share models have a different method of attracting clients compared to traditional egg donation programs ...
Podcast: UK baby born from three ‘parents’ stirs hope and concerns
The pioneering IVF procedure known as mitochondrial donation therapy (MDT) could prevent children from being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases ...
