Bioethics News.It felt as if humanity had crossed an important line: In China, a scientist named He Jiankui announced on Monday that twins had been born in November with a gene that he had edited when they were embryos.
But in some ways this news is not new at all. A few genetically modified people already walk among us.
#Bioethics News: A new experiment has raised medical and ethical questions: a support system delivering artificial blood to pig brains prevented degradation of important neural functions, Yale researchers discovered. https://t.co/3zPYgIKL9u
#Bioethics News: Researchers say bias in AI is a crisis, and has now been linked to lack of tech diversity https://t.co/xAhFs2Wjia
#Bioethics News: Stanford University has cleared Stephen Quake, a bioengineering professor, of any wrongdoing in his interactions with a Chinese researcher who roiled the scientific world by creating the first gene-edited babies. https://t.co/hRyi2W50My
#Bioethics News: NYC health officials issued summonses to parents of three children Thursday for failing to have their children vaccinated against measles, a violation of the city’s emergency order mandating immunizations to control a surging outbreak.https://t.co/6dxvKCcOUv
#Bioethics News: Scientists in southern China report that they’ve tried to narrow the evolutionary gap, creating several transgenic macaque monkeys with extra copies of a human gene suspected of playing a role in shaping human intelligence. https://t.co/QQyJm82UFU
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