Medical Regs & Ethics
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 ...
Viewpoint: In the name of equity, Democrats try to limit drug patent rights. Here’s why that could derail US bioinnovation and hurt the most vulnerable
When it comes to our currently world-leading biotechnology industry, our leaders are repeating many of the same mistakes ...
Happy 41st birthday, genetically-engineered insulin. Your approval by the FDA in 1982 took 5 months. How many years would it take now?
October 29th marks the 41st anniversary of one of biotechnology’s most significant milestones — the approval by the Food and ...
Will AI make biology textbook authors redundant? Here’s one author’s view of ChatGPT
I just used ChatGPT for the first time. Initially, I was concerned about my future as the chatbot near-instantaneously answered ...
‘I was crying all the time’: Weight-loss drug Ozempic sparks mental health side effects in some users
In July, the European Medicines Agency said that it was looking into the risk of thoughts of self-harm and suicidal ...
Genetic medical astrology? Nutrigenomic DNA tests: Can you prime your health by tailoring diet and exercise to your biology?
"The promise of genetic testing is that it can tell you more about the way you're built so that you ...
Viewpoint: Unregulated $14 billion surrogacy industry treats women like ‘children factories’
In the U.S., surrogacy laws vary by state, but on the whole, it's largely unregulated and gaining more acceptance ...
Viewpoint: ‘Abortion tourism’ — How DeSantis and other Republicans are trying to marginalize women who seek to end pregnancies
Republicans made it harder to get abortions in red states. Now they have a punchline for trivializing the journeys people ...
