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Chinese scientist says he edited babies' genes to be HIV-resistant. But the government put a stop to it.
"I was shocked because this is so beyond the pale of what scientists are doing or considering acceptable to do."
Genetic Editing Could Cause the Next Cold War
If China pursues human genetic enhancement and the US retreats under a conservative government, it could create a divide between the modified and the not, sewing the seeds of global conflict.
A Bioethicist Argues for Engineering Babies That Will Have an Easy Life
Bioethicist Julian Savulescu reckons there's nothing wrong with genetically engineering a child that'll have it easy. In fact, he thinks we're morally obligated.
This Week, Top Geneticists Want to Decide If GMO Humans Are OK
The International Summit on Human Genome Editing is the most important meeting ever held on the subject.
Scientists Are Working Out Whether You Can Have a Baby with Yourself
Single-parent reproduction is exactly what it sounds like—a very complicated scientific process that involves taking one person’s stem cells, making one of them male and the other female, before splicing them together to make a child.
'Three-Parent Babies' Could Be Born in Two Years
A team of UK scientists gave their backing to a new IVF technique that would involve three people's DNA.
The Technology for Designer Babies Was Just Patented, But Will It Be Used?
Cue the dystopian prophecies.
Ones and Zeros 5/3/11: Birth Certificate Be Damned, Peak TV, OBL's a Twit-lebrity
_"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. - Guy Debord_ h3. ONE: Obama and his posse watched bin Laden raid first-person shooter style ("The Telegraph":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/848935...