John Loike
When coronavirus patients don’t have time to wait: Pandemic forces ethical shift in assessing treatments
Normally, it takes about eight years to move a drug through clinical trials and approval by the US Food and ...
Viewpoint: We aren’t ready for biomarkers that could predict how long we’ll live
Over the past several years, scientists have identified four genetic and molecular biomarkers that potentially predict human and animal longevity ...
Transplant shortage? Don’t generate human organs in animals, use stem cell technology to develop organoids
Xenotransplantation experiments, generating human organs in animals for transplantation, are being conducted in sheep, pigs, and, recently, in nonhuman primates ...
Why comatose infants make ideal test subjects for brain-reviving technology
A recent Nature paper describing an artificial blood perfusion used in an attempt to restore brain function after pigs were ...
Defining life: Why we need to identify the boundary between living things and AI robots
They’re advancing artificial intelligence (AI) to create next-gen personalized robots that can read human emotions in real time. What will ...
Japan wants to use stem cells to treat paralysis—but ethical questions remain
On February 18, 2019, The Asahi Shimbun reported, “Ministry [of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan] OKs 1st iPS [induced pluripotent ...
Viewpoint: Creation of synthetic DNA demands ethical boundaries for its use
A study published [February 21] expands the redesign of the 4-billion-year-old genetic code from a four-nucleotide base-pair alphabet to an eight-base-pair ...
New techniques could transform epigenetics research, ameliorating diseases
Epigenetics, the study of mechanisms by which genes are turned on or off without altering their genetic code or DNA ...
Viewpoint: Consumer DNA tests promise more than they can deliver
Over the past few years, many [DNA testing companies] have branched out into the realm of precision health, treading into ...
