Designer Babies? The Ethical and Regulatory Implications of Polygenic Embryo Screening
The rise in polygenic embryo screening is ushering in a new era of human control over reproduction.
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Read more: Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation
The story of technology and disability needs to be led by disabled people themselves.
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Read more: Bioethics Experts vs Ordinary South Africans on the Governance of Human Genome Editing Bioethics Experts vs Ordinary South Africans on the Governance of Human Genome Editing
On the issue of human genome editing, attitudes between bioethics scholars and the general public diverge.
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Read more: Mainstreaming Reproductive Genetic Innovation Mainstreaming Reproductive Genetic Innovation
Four potential avenues for structuring a societal discourse on reproductive genetic innovation in the U.S.
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Read more: The Not-So-Sacred Human Genome: What South Africans Think About Heritable Human Genome Editing The Not-So-Sacred Human Genome: What South Africans Think About Heritable Human Genome Editing
The participants overwhelmingly supported changing the human genome if this offers promise of a better life.
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Read more: Another Kind of Performance-Enhancing Drug in Sports: Substances That Improve Creativity Another Kind of Performance-Enhancing Drug in Sports: Substances That Improve Creativity
Should performance-enhancing drugs that improve innovation and creativity be treated like those that enhance athleticism?
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Read more: The (Possible) “Dark Side” of Gene Editing Technologies The (Possible) “Dark Side” of Gene Editing Technologies
By Shelly Simana Gene editing technologies enable people to directly change their DNA sequence by adding, removing, or replacing DNA bases. Today, for the first time, as Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg announced in their book, A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution, people “possess the ability to edit not only…
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Read more: How Scott Gottlieb is Wrong on the Gene Edited Baby Debacle How Scott Gottlieb is Wrong on the Gene Edited Baby Debacle
Gottlieb’s comments on the news that gene edited embryos in China had led to live births were wrong.
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Read more: Silver Spoons and Golden Genes: Designing Inequality? Silver Spoons and Golden Genes: Designing Inequality?
By Dov Fox A recent web series sparked controversy with the headline that “Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here.” The online articles make the case that disparate access to frozen embryo screening for debilitating diseases—sickle cell anemia, Tay-Sachs, or cystic fibrosis—is “designing inequality into our genes.” The authors are right that reproductive technology isn’t…
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Read more: Can a national conscience be gene edited? Can a national conscience be gene edited?
By Paul McLean Gene editing is at once promising and perilous. Or, as John Oliver said in a recent episode of his news show, it is ”either going to kill all disease or kill every last one of us.” The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is not as amusing as John Oliver, and unlike the summer…