Bioethics

Bioethical concerns are probably as old as medical practice. Technological advancements in the life sciences, such as genome editing, pose new and unprecedented ethical questions that humanity will have to deal with.
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Gene-Edited Monkey Clones stir Excitement and Debate
Article
Genetically identical primates offer the best models of human disease, but raise ethical issues.

David Cyranoski

Nature, 2019

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Genealogy Databases and the Future of Criminal Investigation
Article
The police can access your online family-tree research – and use it to investigate your relatives.

Natalie Ram et al.

Science, 2018

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Four Ethical Priorities for Neurotechnologies and AI
Article
Artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces must respect and preserve people’s privacy, identity, agency and equality, say Rafael Yuste, Sara Goering and colleagues.

Rafael Yuste and Sara Goering et al.

Nature, 2017

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China’s Push for Better Babies
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A campaign to increase preimplantation genetic diagnosis could put the country on the path towards eliminating certain diseases.

David Cyranoski

Nature, 2017

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Americans are Becoming More Open to Human Genome Editing, Survey Finds, but Concerns Remain
Article

Jon Cohen

Science, 2017

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Zapping Cocaine Addiction
Article
Powerful magnetic pulses that modify brain activity may loosen the drug’s grip.

Meredith Wadman

Science, 2017

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The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of 23andMe
Article
How Anne Wojcicki took the start-up firm from the brink of failure to scientific preeminence.

Erika Check Hayden

Nature, 2017

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Our Posthuman Future
Book
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

Francis Fukuyama

FSG, 2002

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Gene Editing for Good
Article
How CRISPR Could Transform Global Development

Bill Gates

Foreign Affairs, 2018

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Cracking the Genome
Book
Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA

Kevin Davies

Free Press, 2001

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