Tag Archives: genetics

CRISPR, Faster

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Andrew Stuttaford

MIT Technology Review: The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, MIT Technology Review has learned. The effort, led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov … Continue reading →

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‘3-Parent’ Babies: A Controversy That Shouldn’t Be

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Andrew Stuttaford

The New York Times: A few months ago, after a fertility procedure at a Mexican clinic, a healthy baby boy was born in New York to a couple from Jordan. It was the first live birth of a child who … Continue reading →

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“Three Parent” Babies? No, More Like 2.001 (If That)…

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Andrew Stuttaford

Bioethicists are, for the most part, a pretty presumptuous bunch: who on earth do they think they are? In this case, however, highlighted by the Washington Post, they have got things right: An elite panel of scientists and bioethicists offered … Continue reading →

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For the Children (Not)

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Muscular dystrophy is an inalienable human right (or something). The Daily Telegraph reports: A group of 34 European politicians, including eight British MPs and peers, has signed a declaration attacking plans which will make the UK the first country in … Continue reading →

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Gene Genie

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Should people be allowed to see details of their own genetic information? Of course. Yet, as Reason’s Ron Bailey points out in a post linking to this article by Slate’s Virginia Hughes, “timorous and condescending bioethicists and physicians” insist on … Continue reading →

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Twins

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

From a WSJ review of a new book chronicling the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart: The Minnesota study’s IQ results hit a nerve years before their publication in 1990, overshadowing other controversies that might have been. Many of its … Continue reading →

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On Jews & genetics

Posted on June 6, 2010 by David Hume

I have been travelling, and so blogging has been light from my end for a while now. But I thought I would point readers to a long post I put up over at Discover Blogs on Jewish genetics. The post … Continue reading →

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Your genes on cuisine

Posted on December 11, 2008 by David Hume

A year ago there was a paper on the effect of diet on enzyme production, Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation. That human evolution skeptic, P. Z. Myers, has just noticed the paper, and says: This … Continue reading →

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