Erik Parens
Level the playing field: Genetics makes us not only different but unequal. CRISPR could change that. Should we do it?
Over the past decade, economists, sociologists and psychologists have begun collaborating with geneticists to investigate how genomic differences among human ...
Viewpoint: Genetics research was supposed to change human health. Is it time to reconsider investments in the field?
Since its birth 30 years ago, proponents of the Human Genome Project have promised that genetics research would yield untold ...
Viewpoint: We need to stop worrying about whether people can cope with bad news from genetic tests
When the Human Genome Project began in 1990, bioethicists feared that giving people the results of genetic tests would do ...
‘Genome profiling’—not gene editing—could offer easiest path to smarter babies
For the foreseeable future, editing embryos to enhance IQ is a sci-fi fantasy. A different approach aimed at enhancing IQ ...
