Blog Posts (8)
May 14, 2013
[The Guardian] It was an extraordinarily public declaration of an incredibly private experience. But when Angelina Jolie took to the comment pages of the New York Times to declare that she had undergone a double mastectomy, she spearheaded a new awaren...
May 8, 2013
[The Sydney Morning Herald]
The parents of a severely disabled boy have lost a $10 million case against an IVF specialist who failed to properly warn them of the likelihood their son would inherit a blood-clotting condition, but are considering appeali...
April 29, 2013
Original Commentary by BEI Young Professionals member Ayelet Evrony.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a highly effective technology that allows couples to preemptively screen a selection of embryos for an array of genetic disorders. Utilized ...
April 25, 2013
[Guardian] Scientists researching diseases such as cancer are impeded by having to pay companies who own specific gene patents. You carry a set of instructions in every cell, encrypted in DNA. Your genome, 3 billion letters of genetic code, is not on...
February 19, 2013
[The New York Review of Books] Can genes be patented? This spring, the Supreme Court will hear a case that may well decide the question, and the consequences for American biomedicine could be huge. Over three years ago, in May 2009, the American Civil ...
February 17, 2013
[Deutsche Welle] The decision of a regional appeals court in Hamm that the children of sperm donors have the right to know who their fathers are could have a wider impact – some 100,000 children in Germany were born to sperm donors.
For people who ...
January 29, 2013
[Nature] How private is private? A study published on 17 January reveals vulnerabilities in the security of public databases that contain genetic data, the latest in a series of similar revelations. So far, research funders that host the databases have...
January 20, 2013
[NPR, David Schultz] Getting the results of a genetic test can be a bit like opening Pandora’s box. You might learn something useful or interesting, or you might learn that you’re likely to develop an incurable disease later on in life.
The...
