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Genetic blueprint of unborn baby in sight

Harriet Washington | 
Sequencing the whole genome of a fetus could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale - but ...

Myriad Genetics patent dispute: Genes are patentable, and that’s OK, says author

Maxx Chatsko | 
The recent Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Geneticspatent dispute involving two genes for breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA 1 ...

Will personalized medicine challenge or reify categories of race and ethnicity?

Joan Fujimura, Ramya Rajagopalan | 
In the last 5 years, medical geneticists have been conducting studies to examine possible links between DNA and disease on ...
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Maverick ethics professor: “It’s our duty to have designer babies”

Julian Savulescu, the Oxford University professor of ethics controversially argues that “breeding better babies” is our human imperative ...
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Wal-Mart resists protesters, will sell GM corn

Katy Davis | 
The protest over Walmart’s decision to sell genetically modified sweet corn is building. Opponents of GM foods are alarmed and ...
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Medical ethicist examines ‘how to build a better human’

Tyler Greer | 
Science moves fast these days, and remarkable tools for human enhancement seem to emerge frenetically. Society often questions the way ...

Zambia: State refutes GMO importation claim

Nkole Chitala | 
Government says reports that the country is being fed by Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) is mere speculation. Deputy Minister of ...
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Monsanto: ‘No’ to GM food labeling in California, ‘yes’ to GM food labeling in Great Britain? Why?

Dana Hull | 
Monsanto fully supports the labeling of foods with genetically engineered products. In the United Kingdom. St. Louis-based Monsanto, a leading ...

Authorities in China deny that children were used in a GM food experiment

Jin Hiaxing, Shan Juan | 
Authorities in Hunan province on Saturday denied that children in a rural school were guinea pigs in a US research ...

Worrying about eugenics in California: Is it a legacy of the past or the future? Public event brings scientists and ethicists together to discuss the possibility of eugenics in California

For much of the 20th century, California was at the forefront of eugenic ideology and practices in the United States, ...

Genetically engineering ‘ethical’ babies is a moral obligation, says Oxford professor

Richard Alleyne | 
Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a "moral obligation" as it makes them grow ...

Does the State have your child’s DNA?

Rebecca Taylor | 
The Citizens' Council on Health Care released a report in 2009 that raises concerns about the extension of eugenics into ...
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U.S. Appeals Court: Government can fund stem cell research

A three-judge panel at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia refused to order the Obama ...
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Gene studies pose ethical dilemma when disease mutations are found

Gina Kolata | 
In laboratories around the world, genetic researchers using tools that are ever more sophisticated to peer into the DNA of ...
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US court upholds federal funding for stem cell research

Jon Entine | 
A federal appeals court has ruled that because no human embryos are destroyed in human embryonic stem cell research studies ...
Ethical implications of genetic screening: How far can we go?

Ethical implications of genetic screening: How far can we go?

Tom Chivers | 
Julian Savulescu, a professor of ethics at Oxford, has argued that we should be free to design our children's personality ...
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Synthetic biology: Mutating the meaning of life? Some critics think ‘yes’

Daniel Sharp | 
Critics of synthetic biology have long said that the practice should be known as “playing God” and argue that the ...
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Genetic patent stunner: Myriad wins appeal, retains patent to BRCA tests

Jon Entine | 
Snubbing a recommendation by the Supreme Court, a federal appeals court in Washington, in a 2:1 decision, upheld patents issued ...

As prices for prenatal genome sequencing tests fall, some worry about consequences for families in a real-life ‘Gattaca’

Makini Brice | 
If you could know your unborn child's entire genetic makeup, would you want to? Researchers believe that tests that detail ...

California labeling initiative: Anti-GM activist compares the food industry to tobacco industry

Michele Simon | 
As the California labeling act gets closer to election day, proponents of both sides are coming out of the woodwork ...

Key West, Florida, says NO to genetically engineered mosquitoes

Dengue Fever afflicts millions of people around the world. It is a virus that is spread by a specific mosquito, ...

Controversy over scientists plan to map and make public extended family’s genome

Emily Underwood | 
Not as many people around the world cared about the genes of Manuel Corpas and his family as he had ...

Vietnam: Genetically modified crops to be planted in 2015

Official permission for the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops on a large scale in Vietnam may not be realized ...
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FDA seeks to regulate your cells

Coleen Klasmeier, Scott Gottlieb | 
A recent decision by a federal trial court gave the Food and Drug Administration the latitude that the agency has ...
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New prenatal testing can detect more genetic problems

Andrew Pollack | 
A new method of prenatal testing that can detect more genetic problems in a fetus than ever before could be ...
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Anti-GM ‘ambulance chasers’ poised to enter ‘litigation heaven’ if Prop 37 passes

Hank Campbell | 
The American Medical Association agrees with the USDA and wrote two months ago, "There is no scientific justification for special ...
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Genetic testing for a ‘gay’ gene: Is it a possibility?

Belky Perez Schwartz | 
For the most part, when you think of genetic testing, you usually think of a situation in which the parents ...
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