Julian Savulescu
Should we treat human-pig chimeras as people?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists in the United ...
Does search for ‘intelligence genes’ lead down road to eugenics?
Academic giftedness (I use this in a broad term to cover greater general academic aptitude), it would appear, is largely ...
Despite ethical issues, screen kids for low IQ because some treatment may be possible
There could be a way of predicting – and preventing – which children will go on to have low intelligence, ...
New genetic ‘editing’ technique raises the specter of human enhancement
It’s got Nobel Prize written all over it. The scientific innovation, CRISPR, which enables accurate ‘editing’ of DNA (compared to ...
Mammoth cloning: Big animal, big ethical concerns
Theoretically, mammoths could be cloned by recovering, reconstructing or synthesizing viable mammoth DNA but some object to “deep” human intervention ...