Tag: CRISPR
Scientists Succeed in Creating Mouse Artificial Wombs
This technology is still a long time from the potential for human application, but it presents issues we need to address now.
Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”
As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.”
The Vanity of Big Fertility
This technique was designed solely to benefit the mothers, not the baby.
Nature Says Bioethics Is Obsolete
In such a milieu in which there really is no “right” and “wrong,” who needs bioethicists?
A Push for Licenses to Genetically Engineer Human Beings
We can’t trust “the scientists” to do the right thing because over the years too many have proven unworthy.