Medical Regs & Ethics
This ‘superstar’ genetic analyst cracked criminal cases and locked people up for three decades. New findings reveal she may have fudged the data
For nearly three decades, Yvonne “Missy” Woods was Colorado’s star forensic scientist, relied on by police and prosecutors to test ...
Orchid babies: Is this embryo scanning fertility startup furthering eugenics or ‘protecting future people from future suffering?’
God help the babies! Or, absent God, a fertility startup called Orchid. It offers prospective parents a fantastical choice: Have ...
GLP podcast: Assessing the Cass report; Fetal genome surgery could treat disease during pregnancy; How ‘body-tracking data’ threatens privacy
The recently released Cass report has intensified an already ferocious debate over gender-affirming care for children. What are the key ...
North Korea and bioweapons: US believes Communist dictatorship has engineered CRISPR biological weapons
North Korea has the capability to genetically engineer biological weapons, according to a U.S. government report. ... The report said ...
Video: BBC uncovers massive deception by Britain’s ‘social egg freezing’ clinics
Video: Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby ...
Viewpoint: Once greatly critical of those using unregulated medications, liberals now endorse unregulated puberty blocking drugs for kids as young as 10. Should we end this dangerous ‘experiment’?
A report concludes that puberty blockers are not reversible and not used to “take time” to consider sex reassignment ...
Viewpoint: Scientific community puts pressure on Germany to repeal law blocking reproductive technology and research on embryos
The scientific community is launching a renewed attack on the controversial law of the German Embryo Protection Act ...
Viewpoint: ‘Body-tracking data is so much a part of our daily lives that we sometimes forget it can be used against us’
With the changing legal landscape, privacy experts point out that data could be used to criminalize people seeking abortions ...
Viewpoint: Using CRISPR to cure diseases is an ethical tightrope — Here’s a Jewish perspective
CRISPR has the potential to treat or even cure a gamut of inherited diseases which have long evaded researchers ...
Can this DNA test predict your chances of getting addicted to opioids? FDA approval stirs controversy
Using a swab inside the cheek and a sophisticated computer algorithm, a DNA test recently approved by federal regulators promises to ...
Viewpoint: ‘For most young people, a medical pathway is not the best way to manage gender-related distress’ — English rethink puberty blockers for youth in wake of controversial ‘Cass Report’
Hilary Cass is the kind of hero the world needs today. She has entered one of the most toxic debates ...
Viewpoint: Eugenics revival — From anti-immigration ‘Great Replacement Theory’ to Silicon Valley libertarian ‘pro-natalism’, ‘racial science’ is gaining a stronghold in the US
Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar ...
Addressing racial disparities in health research: $3 billion ‘All of Us’ genetic diversity project’s ‘trove of results’
A big federal research project aimed at reducing racial disparities in genetic research has unveiled the program's first major results ...
Viewpoint: 25 vs 0.4 COVID deaths per 100,000 people — Trump supporters suffer higher mortality vs rest of America as anti-vaccine movement shifts from left to right
Anti-vaccine activism never had a political affiliation: the left is concerned with avoiding anything chemical, & the right opposes mandates ...
Superintelligence, superlongevity and superhappiness: How billionaire transhumanists want to converge humanity and artificial intelligence
Many prominent people in the tech industry have talked about the increasing convergence between humans and machines in coming decades ...
New England Journal of Medicine and eugenics: Journal chronicles fraught history covering sterilization of immigrants, poor people and those with disabilities
In 1923, Boston City Hospital chose Dr. William Mayo, already famous for the work of his Minnesota clinic, to speak ...
Viewpoint: ‘Baby Olivia’ scandal — Republican legislators lie to kids about fetal development in anti-abortion propaganda video
“Meet Baby Olivia,” a three-minute video produced by the anti-abortion group Live Action, is the foundation of the latest bill that ...
Groundbreaking pineapple-flavored spray vaccine could prevent urinary tract infections for up to 9 years
A breakthrough almost decade-long study of a spray vaccine offers promise for billions of women who suffer from urinary tract ...
Are GMOs causing an increase in allergies?
The potential for allergies from foods with genetically modified ingredients is no higher than that in any food, including organics ...
‘Race’, anti-racism and biology
Using biology to determine the racial ancestry of human remains is racist. Except when it’s done in the name of ...
Challenging bioethical taboos: Chinese scientist He Jiankui who modified the genes of human embryos to protect them from HIV reopens his lab
Chinese researcher He Jiankui revealed to the Mainichi Shimbun that he has resumed research on human embryo genome editing ...
$4.25 million: World’s most expensive drug targets genetic disease that disables and kills toddlers. Will anyone pay for it?
There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs more than the average person will earn in ...
Gametes? Embryo? Fetus? There are 17 timepoints when a human life might begin
I wish that I could stop reposting this essay – I do so whenever limitations on women’s reproductive rights become ...
Mystery ‘Havana flu’ dizziness linked to Russian sonic weaponry
A mysterious illness that has affected US diplomats in recent years has been linked to a Russian intelligence unit ...
The radical conservative case for genetic enhancement
The conclusion of the sexual revolution is about to be written ...
‘Diet weed’: More than 10% of high school seniors take ‘loophole’ legal drug delta-8 THC. What are the consequences?
Delta-8 THC, sometimes referred as "diet weed" or "weed lite," is unregulated in many states thanks to a loophole in ...
Ancient African shrub ibogaine causes psychedelic hallucinations — and can reduce anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Why is it restricted in the US?
Stephen Jones suffers from a traumatic brain injury, but a psychedelic called ibogaine eased his suffering ...
