Regulation & Bioethics
Political incorrectness alert: Genes and hormones likely influence women’s votes
CNN has been widely ridiculed this week for posting and quickly taking down a story about new research regarding how ...
Three-parent fertility method could remove gene defects
Biologists in Oregon report they've produced early-stage human embryos with genes from three parents, a new method that some day ...
Genetic ethics cops shout “designer babies” to abort life saving therapy
As we highlighted this week in Gene-ius, a dramatic, life-improving breakthrough is on the horizon in gene therapy. Researchers from ...
Craig Venter’s vision to print life, generate vaccines
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine and inject it at home, contagion averted ...
Designer Baby? Breakthrough gene therapy that could eliminate rare diseases, raises ethical concerns
Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have replaced bits of defective DNA in a human egg with the equivalent ...
Eugenics 2012: Genetically engineering babies a moral obligation?
Both eugenics and social Darwinism had their moments in their sun, the optimistic goal of progressive techno-elites 100 years ago ...
Questionable GM test ban? Debate over permitting GM foods in Indian fields is controversial on several levels
Last week a Supreme Court-mandated panel of experts that was to recommend, or ban, field trials of genetically modified (GM) ...
FDA challenges stem cell therapy companies
The Food and Drug Administration is stepping up its oversight of companies selling unproven and unlicensed stem-cell therapies and emerging ...
Follow the money: Roots of the anti-genetic engineering movement
Like much that transpires in politics, most of the anti-genetic engineering campaigns we’ve seen over the past 30 years are ...
Disabled woman ponders wisdom of pre-natal and preimplantation genetic screening
As a disabled feminist, I'm often asked about my views on medical procedures like pre-natal screening and preimplantation genetic diagnosis, ...
Small California stem cell research brings riches by tapping into to state funds
StemCells Inc. has had rather a charmed relationship with California's publicly funded stem cell program, with some $40 million in ...
U.S. panel urges end to secret DNA testing
Blood stains from bandages and tampons? Ship them in a paper envelope for paternity, ancestry or health testing. EasyDNA also ...
Supreme Court to hear farmer’s challenge Monsanto’s intellectual property restrictions
Monsanto claims its genetically modified seeds — and all offspring of those seeds — as its intellectual property. If farmers ...
Europe lags Uruguay, Pakistan, Philippines in biotech crop cultivation
For more than 20 years, bucking a worldwide scientific consensus, the European Union (EU) has fallen behind much of the ...
President’s Bioethics Commission Report on Genomics and Privacy
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has just released a statement in which it recognizes that although ...
Are politics holding back animal engineers?
When she saw the trailer for the documentary Genetic Roulette, Alison Van Eenennaam wanted to laugh, then cry. The film ...
Activist attacks against agricultural biotechnology on the rise
Attacks against agricultural biotechnology have increased noticeably this fall around the world and the tactics being used are more sophisticated ...
Stem cell researcher Moriguchi admits to lying about clinical trial
Japanese researcher Hisashi Moriguchi in a news conference admitted that he had lied about several circumstances regarding his involvement in ...
Texas firm cloning horses used in competitions
Video: Scientists cloned the first animal in 1996. Since then a number of businesses have grown, including a Texas company ...
Claim of first human stem cell trial unravels
Claims by a Japanese scientist to have run a clinical trial in which reprogrammed cardiac muscle cells grown from induced ...
US panel urges end to secret DNA testing over privacy concerns
They're called discreet DNA samples, and the Elk Grove, California, genetic-testing company easyDNA says it can handle many kinds, from ...
Race and intelligence
There is no more explosive issue in human genetics than the issue of race and IQ. Ron Unz, a leading ...
Genoeconomics: Is our financial future in our chromosomes?
The GLP carried a provocative article this week outlining the latest twist in the emerging debate over genoeconomics—the nexus of ...
Designing babies to breed out disability?
We have a moral obligation to have healthier children, an ethicist tells SBS’s Insight. But how far should we go ...
Genoeconomics: To uproar, researches say genetic diversity can predict economic success
A yet-to-be-published article in an upcoming issue of the prestigious American Economic Review by two economics professors, peer reviewed by ...
ACLU asks Supreme Court to rule on gene patents
The ACLU has petitioned the US Supreme Court to review a Federal Circuit Court’s decision that an isolated DNA sequence ...
Anti-genetics NGO slams technique to eliminate hereditary diseases as unethical manipulation
The Center for Genetics and Society, which opposes gene modification on ideological grounds, is portraying as unethical a fertility treatment ...