Eight questions to ask before human genetic engineering goes mainstream. February 25, 2016 More than 9 years ago Ultrasound of a fetus in the fourth month of pregnancy.

Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about human genetic engineering. For a half-century, the ethics of ...

T he genetic engineering of human beings has been a dream and a nightmare since scientists first speculated about it a century ago. Futurists and transhumanists have long thought that genetic ...

We Need to Talk About Human Genetic Engineering Before It's Too Late. Published Apr 30, 2016 at 4:02 PM EDT Updated Jun 09, 2016 at 4:15 PM EDT. The power to cure disease is right around the corner.

Genes influence health and disease, as well as human traits and behavior.Researchers are just beginning to use genetic technology to unravel the genomic contributions to these different phenotypes ...

The genetic engineering behind pig-to-human transplants A paper on a transplant to a brain-dead recipient provides details on the donor. John Timmer – Jan 20, 2022 4:46 pm ...

Samira Kiani is a professor of genetic engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the co-producer of Make People Better, which premiered at this week at Hot Docs. The views presented are ...

For example, about two-thirds of men (65%) see genetic engineering of animals to grow human organs or tissues for transplants as appropriate, compared with about half of women (49%). Also, Americans ...

The primary ethical problems with CRISPR in humans so far have come from “germ line” genetic engineering, that is, editing the genes of gametes or early embryos so that the alterations pass ...

Of course, we're not there yet: Human genetic engineering remains in its infancy, used so far only to help couples struggling to conceive.We still don't know exactly which genes give Usain Bolt ...

The benefits of genetic engineering will only be available to the rich. Lots of public resources will be put into genetic research, away from education, public health, infrastructure, etc.

Some genetic engineering decisions are obviously bad ones. (Wikimedia Commons) Assuming the safety problem has been resolved and we decide, as a society, that changing human DNA is sometimes ...