Regulation & Bioethics
Genetic blueprint of unborn baby in sight
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
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?
In the last 5 years, medical geneticists have been conducting studies to examine possible links between DNA and disease on ...
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 ...
Wal-Mart resists protesters, will sell GM corn
The protest over Walmart’s decision to sell genetically modified sweet corn is building. Opponents of GM foods are alarmed and ...
Medical ethicist examines ‘how to build a better human’
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
Government says reports that the country is being fed by Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) is mere speculation. Deputy Minister of ...
Monsanto: ‘No’ to GM food labeling in California, ‘yes’ to GM food labeling in Great Britain? Why?
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
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
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?
The Citizens' Council on Health Care released a report in 2009 that raises concerns about the extension of eugenics into ...
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 ...
Gene studies pose ethical dilemma when disease mutations are found
In laboratories around the world, genetic researchers using tools that are ever more sophisticated to peer into the DNA of ...
US court upholds federal funding for stem cell research
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?
Julian Savulescu, a professor of ethics at Oxford, has argued that we should be free to design our children's personality ...
Synthetic biology: Mutating the meaning of life? Some critics think ‘yes’
Critics of synthetic biology have long said that the practice should be known as “playing God” and argue that the ...
Genetic patent stunner: Myriad wins appeal, retains patent to BRCA tests
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’
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
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
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 ...
FDA seeks to regulate your cells
A recent decision by a federal trial court gave the Food and Drug Administration the latitude that the agency has ...
New prenatal testing can detect more genetic problems
A new method of prenatal testing that can detect more genetic problems in a fetus than ever before could be ...
Anti-GM ‘ambulance chasers’ poised to enter ‘litigation heaven’ if Prop 37 passes
The American Medical Association agrees with the USDA and wrote two months ago, "There is no scientific justification for special ...
Genetic testing for a ‘gay’ gene: Is it a possibility?
For the most part, when you think of genetic testing, you usually think of a situation in which the parents ...