Tag: bioethics
Sound the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing
As Wesley Smith explains, it’s not just that germline editing could lead to unintended health consequences.
Bioethicist: Let Doctors Kill the Healthy by Harvesting Organs
At first, this proposed killing license was supposed to be limited to patients on the verge of death or the permanently unconscious.
An Example of Ethical Human Genetic Engineering
The primary ethical problems with CRISPR in humans so far have come from “germ line” genetic engineering.
Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth
Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality.
Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God
I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle.