HealthWatch: More Parents Deciding Sex Of Children [Video]

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More Bay Area parents are spending thousands of dollars to select if their child will be a boy or girl. The rising popularity of the procedure concerns medical ethicists. Dr. Kim Mulvihill reports.

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

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Genetic Selection

Chinese Scientist Ostracized Over Gene-Edited Babies Seeks Comeback

By Liyan Qi and Jonathan Cheng, The Wall Street Journal | 03.26.2025

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Chinese scientist He Jiankui set off global outrage and landed in prison after he skirted ethical guidelines and claimed he had produced genetically modified babies designed to resist HIV infection.

Now, the self-styled ...

Other Countries

Sociogenomics and Polygenic Scores

By Peter Wehling, Tino Plümecke, and Isabelle Bartram | 03.26.2025

Biopolitical Times

^{This article was originally published as “Soziogenomik und polygene Scores” in issue 272 (February 2025) of the German-language journal Gen-ethischer Informationsdienst (GID); translated by the authors.}

In mid-November 2024, the British organization Hope not Hate published its investigative research ‘Inside the Eugenics Revival’. In addition to documentating an active international “race research” network, the investigation also brought to light the existence of a US start-up that offers eugenic embryo selection. Heliospect Genomics aims to enable wealthy couples to...

Genetic Selection

Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine

By Carsten T. Charlesworth, Henry T. Greely, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MIT Technology Review | 03.25.2025

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Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for human disease? Why do so few drugs that enter clinical trials receive regulatory approval? And why is the waiting list for organ transplantation...

Society

What Do We Owe This Cluster of Cells?

By Anna Louie Sussman, The New York Times | 03.25.2025

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On June 24, 2022, the same day the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, I received a call from the fertility clinic where I’d been undergoing in vitro fertilization, informing me that seven of...

Human Genetic Modification

HealthWatch: More Parents Deciding Sex Of Children [Video]

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