Tag: bioethics
With Gene Editing, Scientists Perilously Push Borders of Biotechnology
Such manipulations, if ever done in humans, could a profound impact on human society going down the generations.
Mass Human Cloning May Soon Be Upon Us
Human cloning has been accomplished, but the field remains generally stalled because of a shortage of human eggs.
A “Healthspan” Duty to Die for the Elderly?
University of Illinois professor S. Jay Olshansky argues that it is time to shift medicine’s focus — starting at age 65 — away from “life extension.”
But Wesley, It’s a Study!
Sorry. In our ideological times, that doesn’t mean as much as it once did.
Lab-Grown Lungs Transplanted into Pigs
The human organ shortage is one of the great bioethical dilemmas of our time. Expanding the organ supply is a matter of life and death.