Tag: genetic engineering
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 Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos
They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey.
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.
A Biomimetics Cure for COVID-19? Thank This Llama
What appears to have great prospects for widespread, safe deployment of an inhalable anti-coronavirus therapy comes from an unlikely source.
Stifle Your Nausea: Ready for a Dish-Grown Brain?
“We have already genetically engineered babies, the march toward three- (or more) parent human embryos, and radical proposals for creating novel family forms.”