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The National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) has confirmed that heritable human genome editing (HHGE) remains illegal in South Africa, after changes in the latest version of the South African Ethics in Health Research Guidelines sparked concern among researchers that...

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the country on an ethical precipice. The newly added language appears to position the country as the first to explicitly permit...

IN THE FALL OF 2016, I gave a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton titled “Are Robots...

A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises...

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By Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 11.03.2024

When Simone Collins, a Republican running for a seat in Pennsylvania’s state legislature, and her husband, Malcolm, were privately asked...

eugenics
By Jennifer Denbow, Nursing Clio | 10.31.2024

Access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a crucial issue in the 2024 election. While the Republican Party...

good and bad DNA
By Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball, Psychology Today | 10.30.2024

In 2021, the American Psychological Association (APA) published a resolutionApology to People of Color for APA’s Role in...

IVF
By Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times | 10.29.2024

SACRAMENTO —  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization —...

embryos
By Zeenat Beebeejaun, PET | 10.28.2024

Building on the 2016 BBC Panorama documentary 'Inside Britain's Fertility Business', which exposed the use of controversial fertility treatment add-ons...

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By David Gilbert, Wired | 10.24.2024

AI-INFUSED SEARCH ENGINES from GoogleMicrosoft, and Perplexity have been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research promoting race...

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By Walt Bogdanich and Carson Kessler, The New York Times | 10.23.2024

By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the...

CRISPR editing on DNA strand
By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 10.22.2024

In an extraordinary 6,000-word guest editorial in the October 2024 issue of The CRISPR Journal (a sister journal of GEN, ...