In the News this Week
Posted by Jesse Reynolds April 18, 2008
Biopolitical Times
The latest company to offer personal genome scans, Navigenics, opened a store front in the trendy SoHo neighborhood of New York.
In the UK, a provision in the controversial bill to overhaul that nation's oversight of assisted reproductive technologies was altered, so prospective parents could select for deafness during preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Selecting for "serious medical conditions" remains prohibited, but deafness has been removed from that category in the bill.
An international group of stem cell scientists and bioethicists warned politicians "not to block scientific inquiry into subjects such as stem cells and embryo research just because there is a difference of opinion on the ethics or morality of the work."