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Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this area kicked off around a decade ago, and is still largely experimental in humans. But, the technique used to potentially...

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The first part of the title is shamelessly borrowed from Quartz, which published this on July 21, 2023:

Sam Bankman-Fried seemed unprepared for the end of his FTX crypto exchange, but he’d certainly started planning for the end of civilization. 

Well, of course, if you are committed to “longtermism” and “effective altruism” then such contingency planning seems, at first blush, to be rather...

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The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her...

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The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) recently released Facing Our History – Building An Equitable Future Initiative, a...

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Any coverage of heritable genome editing since 2018 has to include discussion of the reckless experiments of He Jiankui and...

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Last November, this blog published a piece with the title “Hipster Eugenics...

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A young researcher studying plant breeding for her PhD at Cornell University has just published a paper warning GMO promoters not to make overhyped claims about supposed yield gains from GM crops. Merritt Khaipho-Burch...

A recent press release I received got me thinking about how much we really care about kids. The press alert came from the Coalition to Stop Designer Babies, which is organizing internationally to oppose efforts by some scientists and would-be...

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Italian authorities are bringing in new measures targeting LGBT families and making it harder for them to have children. Many same-sex parents feel that a new law, which would make it illegal to have...

Most of Europe was in lockdown in April 2020 when a plane arrived in the Serbian capital bearing a well-timed gift from the People’s Republic of China. Inside was a Chinese invention called the Fire-Eye, a sophisticated portable lab that...

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