Science Controversies
Eggs can be harvested from trans men’s ovaries even after hormone replacement therapy, helping them have biological children
Ovaries contain hundreds of thousands of underdeveloped eggs, held in a kind of suspended animation. Each month, one matures and ...
If the EU breaks from past blanket opposition to agri-biotechnology, what might the legal framework look like?
Throughout the EU, GMOs may only be placed on the field as seed or on the market as food or ...
Natural COVID immunity? Some people are exposed to SARS-CoV-2 but never get sick
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most Americans have some immunity against the virus — either by vaccination ...
China rolls out legal protections on the genetic data of its citizens–with troubling exceptions, say ethics experts
The Chinese government has identified genetic data as a national strategic resource and is strengthening state control over the country's ...
Viewpoint: Ukrainian war fallout — German Green Party must get over rejection of GMOs and gene edited crops
In the face of the war against Ukraine, the leadership of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party has said goodbye to ...
CRISPR mosquitoes target malaria: 240 million annual cases could be reduced dramatically by using gene editing and gene drives to control disease-carrying insects
The high number of malaria cases continues to be registered even though several efforts have been put in place towards ...
Embryo screening PGT-A tests may falsely identify healthy embryos as abnormal
When they began their first two rounds of in vitro fertilization in 2015, Anna Dahlquist and her husband, Brian, took ...
Some patients who take COVID medication Paxlovid experience rebound symptom recurrence
I had low expectations for Pfizer’s anti-Covid medication, Paxlovid, before its clinical trial data was released. After all, novel antivirals ...
Is cancer a mostly genetic disease phenomenon?
Nearly all the theories about the causes of cancer that have emerged over the past several centuries can be sorted ...
Tiny heart made from bioengineered parts and human tissue created to study disease
There’s no safe way to get a close-up view of the human heart as it goes about its work: you ...
COVID nasal vaccines nearing rollout could ease resistance
While coronavirus shots are among the greatest medical achievements of all time, reaching the market in less than a year ...
Food shortages and growing public anger boils over as Beijing-ordered lockdowns shut down major Chinese cities
Anger and anxiety over the Shanghai lockdown, now in its fourth week, has posed a rare challenge for China’s powerful ...
Viewpoint: Trailblazing transgender golfer Mianne Bagger says trans athletes should not be allowed to compete against cisgender women
Mianne Bagger, a transgender female golfer from Denmark who made history when she competed in the Women’s Australian Open in ...
China’s new bioethics rules: Foreign companies prohibited from collecting human genetic resources inside China
China's new rules in the pipeline on human genetic resources will clarify jurisdictions of regulatory bodies and enhance supervision related ...
GLP Podcast: Vaccine denier vs skeptic; Food changes DNA? Biotech will help solve next health crisis
Treating vaccine-hesitant individuals like they are hardcore vaccine "deniers" could backfire as a science-outreach strategy. Can the food you eat ...
‘A social construct with no biological reality’: Breaking down hymen myths
The belief that the hymen provides physical "proof" of sexual history is the premise of virginity testing, a practice condemned ...
Are cats drugs? That’s how outdated FDA regulations categorize them when it comes to hypoallergenic felines
Almost 20 years ago, a controversial company called Lifestyle Pets (formerly Allerca) claimed to have produced hypoallergenic cats using conventional ...
Viewpoint: Miniaturized organs made from stem cells — What are the ethical considerations?
One way in which scientists are studying how the human body grows and ages is by creating artificial organs in ...
Gene-edited crops pose low risks — but still face regulatory and public acceptance challenges
Widespread enthusiasm about potential contributions of genome-edited crops to address climate change, food security, nutrition and health, environmental sustainability and ...
Viewpoint: Is China overreacting to mild COVID variant outbreak?
What exactly is the function of China’s zero-Covid lockdowns, which individually and cumulatively now are far bigger than even the ...
Unraveling sex differences in vaccine response
Vaccines save lives, and the record time in which scientists developed Covid-19 vaccines is unprecedented. While debilitating side effects from ...
‘FDA stifles innovation’: Livestock farmers urge federal government to put USDA in charge of animal gene regulations
Livestock and crop groups sent a letter to USDA renewing calls for the department to advance its own animal gene editing regulations ...
Decoupling ideologically-driven positions from science on GMO key for India’s agricultural future
The lack of approval of genetically modified (GM) crops since the introduction of Bt cotton in 2002 signals a dormant ...
Switch in strategy: Why the next COVID vaccine could be a nasal spray
The virus had gained a stunning ability to infect people, jumping from one person’s nose to the next. Cases soared ...
‘Protective devices’: Why some exposed people are unlikely to get COVID
Over the course of the pandemic, my daughter has been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19, ...
Viewpoint: How European GMO restrictions are hurting development of genetically-based therapeutics
There aren’t enough viruses. At least, there are not enough engineered ones, the viral vectors used in gene therapies such ...
Ethics moves to the forefront as demand grows for preimplantation testing of human embryos
New technologies are expanding the reach and accessibility of preimplantation genetic testing of human embryos. But what these advances can ...
