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Experimental Human Cell Division Does Not a Baby Make

By Pete Shanks | 10.22.2025

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^{Paula Amato & Shoukhrat Mitalipov

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On September 30th, a team of 21 scientists from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) published a significant paper in Nature Communications, with a scientifically accurate but, to many, somewhat abstruse headline:

Induction of experimental cell division to generate cells with reduced chromosome ploidy

The lead authors were Shoukhrat Mitalipov, recently described here as “a push-the-envelope biologist,” and his long-term colleague Paula Amato. (Recall that in July the pair had co-published with...

Assisted Reproduction

Does One Size Fit All?

By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025

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This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

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The race to create the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess

By Julia Black, MIT Technology Review | 10.16.2025

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Consider, if you will, the translucent blob in the eye of a microscope: a human blastocyst, the biological specimen that emerges just five days or so after a fateful encounter between egg and sperm. This bundle of cells, about the size of...

Genetic Selection

Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

By Lizzy Lawrence, Stat News | 10.14.2025

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^{"Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at Legends Event Center in Phoenix, Arizona." by Gage Skidmore licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0}

WASHINGTON — The inquiry came in August, and struck scientists at the Food...

Stem Cells

Center for Genetics and Society Letter in Opposition to California AB 2531

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