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Viewpoint: Weight loss drug boom raises host of unaddressed ethical and scientific questions

Scientific American | 
The world has launched into an era of injectables not just to treat obesity but to manage weight. Is that ...
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There are now more than 1 million donor-conceived children in the US. That’s creating inequities in egg freezing and donor brokering

Hastings Center | 
There is significant reproductive injustice and lack of access to fertility treatments by diverse populations. Nowhere is this more obvious ...
Brain fingerprinting: Microelectronics and medical imaging bring us closer to acheiving mind reading and banishing blindness

Brain fingerprinting: Microelectronics and medical imaging bring us closer to acheiving mind reading and banishing blindness

Spectrum | 
Coupled with powerful microelectronics, science’s understanding of the brain is opening the door to new ways of handling criminal investigations ...
Viewpoint: Why we need to require COVID vaccines in high-risk settings such as nursing homes and prisons

Viewpoint: Why we need to require COVID vaccines in high-risk settings such as nursing homes and prisons

In long-term care facilities, residents are usually very elderly, and many of them have medical conditions that put them at ...
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Viewpoint: Working with drug companies to help terminally ill patients gain access to experimental drugs

STAT | 
My colleagues and I at New York University’s Division of Medical Ethics quickly recognized that right to try could not ...
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Are we close to gene therapy in the womb?

Verge | 
[Recently] scientists reported that they were able to treat a serious genetic disorder in the womb — in mice. It sounds like ...
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How the genetics revolution is upending our concept of disease—and how that could improve healthcare

Genetic Literacy Project | 
What is a disease? This seemingly abstract and theoretical question is actually among the most practical questions in all of ...
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NYU ethicists: ‘Biologically’ modified mosquitoes should be deployed to fight Zika

Time | 
[Arthur Caplan and Kelly Folkers are ethicists at New York University.] Zika is here to stay as a highly dangerous warm-weather pest ...

Did Monsanto doom GMOs in public mind by tying them to pesticides?

PrimeMind | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .[W]ho thinks ...

Art Caplan: Food industry should adopt voluntary GMO labels

Medscape | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I'm Art Caplan at ...

Leading bioethicist says food industry should voluntarily label GMO foods

NBC News | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Should labels be required ...

Three-parent babies are the ethical choice

NBC News | 
The FDA is considering approving an experiment to repair a genetic disease in humans by creating embryos with DNA from ...

Get ready for the risks of genetic testing

CNN | 
The following is an edited excerpt. Would you want to know your future if science could tell it to you? ...

Greenpeace “out to sea” on GM rice issue, bioethicist says

NBC News | 
Greenpeace, perhaps best known for its battles at sea to protect whales and the oceans, has gotten itself involved in ...
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