December 4, 2018
(The Atlantic) – Of course, as sperm donation has grown more popular, the practices surrounding it have changed, too, trending ever more toward transparency: Today, parents of donor-conceived kids are far more likely to openly share their children’s origins with … Read More
December 3, 2018
(MIT Technology Review) – In the wild uproar around an experiment in China that claimed to have created twin girls whose genes were altered to protect them from HIV, there’s something worth knowing—research to improve the next generation of humans … Read More
December 3, 2018
(TIME) – “The implications go beyond just these twins,” says Dr. Kiran Musunuru, professor of cardiovascular medicine and genetics at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. “If we talk about the sanctity of human life, and the inherent dignity … Read More
November 30, 2018
(BBC) – A new study has found that more children in the UK may have been affected by their mothers drinking alcohol while pregnant than previously thought. Research published Friday found that up to 17% of children could have symptoms found … Read More
November 30, 2018
(STAT News) – We can convene as many international summits to discuss the ethics of using genome altering technologies on humans as we like, but we are fooling ourselves to think that they are anything more than window dressing when … Read More
November 29, 2018
(NPR) – When at 19 Mehnaz became pregnant for the fifth time, she panicked. She already had four daughters, and her husband was threatening to throw her out if she had another. So she did what millions of Pakistani women … Read More
November 29, 2018
(New Scientist) – He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world’s first genetically-edited babies, says another may be on the way. Speaking at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the University of Hong Kong … Read More
November 28, 2018
(Reuters) – Niger’s health ministry has ordered two family planning centers run by British charity Marie Stopes International (MSI) to close because it performed abortions, the ministry said on Wednesday. Abortion is banned under Nigerien law except in cases when the … Read More
November 28, 2018
(Newsweek) – By the end of this century, about 157 million people will owe their lives to assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, donor eggs and surrogacy. Denmark now has the highest proportion of babies born through assisted reproductive technology … Read More
November 28, 2018
(The Atlantic) – In contrast, He’s team disabled a normal gene in an attempt to reduce the risk of a disease that neither child had—and one that can be controlled. There are already ways of preventing fathers from passing HIV … Read More
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