0000-0002-8715-2896 Toward designer babies and creating (human?) genomes Posted May 19, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above NO SEX, NO PAIN: TOWARD LAB-GROWN DESIGNER BABIES It gives newCategory Archives: genetic engineering
Toward designer babies and creating (human?) genomes
0000-0002-8715-2896 Toward designer babies and creating (human?) genomes Posted May 19, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above NO SEX, NO PAIN: TOWARD LAB-GROWN DESIGNER BABIES It gives newPosted by in CRISPR, designer babies, dna, eggs, Evolution, featured, gene editing, genetic engineering, genetics, Genome, GP-write, health care, HGP-write, Human Evolution, mice, On Science Blogs, Research, sperm, stem cells
Science heroes of Flint’s lead water crisis
“LEAD MAKES THE MIND GIVE WAY” Old news, from a doc in Rome–in the second century BC, quoted by William Finnegan in the New Yorker. Finnegan’s is a fine angry summary of thousands of yearsPosted by in brain, citizen science, featured, Flint MI, genetic engineering, health care, lead, On Science Blogs, Politics, Research, united states, water, water supply
Is Lander’s revisionist CRISPR history sexist?
Explosive disagreements over the origins of CRISPR, the leading methodology for editing genes, were inevitable. CRISPR has given scientists (and journalists) dizzying dreams of a near-unlimited ability to manipulate the genomes of animals and plants,Food fights: the new dietary guidelines, fats, salt, sugar, edible GMOs
If you read anything at all about the US Department of Agriculture’s 2015 dietary guidelines, which have finally been issued now that it is 2016, it was probably a diatribe arguing that the government wasPosted by in carbohydrates, fat, featured, food, genetic engineering, genetics, Genome, GMO, health care, medically unexplained symptoms, obesity, On Science Blogs, Politics, Research, salt, soda, sugar, united states
The cancer moonshot and other future science fantasies
Last Friday, On Science Blogs was given over to the many “best of science” lists of 2015. This week’s post is about what bloggers foresee for 2016–and beyond. THE CANCER MOONSHOT: WELCOME TO 2016 Vice-PresidentMore on gene editing rules, CRISPR in humans and dogs, bioethics & breakthroughs
THE HUMAN GENE EDITING SUMMIT, CONT’D Citizens seeking to understand what was decided at last week’s Human Gene Editing Summit might be understandably confused by the contradictions in these headlines: Scientific community approves human genePosted by in bioethics, Bora Zivkovic, cranial, CRISPR, CRISPR/Cas9, dogs, eugenics, Evolution, featured, fraud, gene editing, genetic disease, genetic engineering, Genome, Genomics, GMO, health care, Human Evolution, media criticism, muscular dystrophy, On Science Blogs, Politics, pruning, Research, Science Magazine, united states, women
Psychology cleans up its act, plus biohackers embrace gene editing, CRISPR, cyborgs
THE MESS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND OTHER SCIENCES TOO You’d think that the just-published Science paper, recounting a massive attempt at replication of 100 selected research projects published in the top psychology journals in 2008, would be cause for much beating … Continue reading
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Pinker’s gene editing rant ignored most bioethics issues; debunking stoner Shakespeare
Do you suppose Steven Pinker’s broadside against professional bioethics oversight of CRISPR and other forms of gene editing–Pinker’s command to bioethics was brutally inflexible: “Get out of the way”–will change bioethics for the better? Or gene editing, for that matter? … Continue reading
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Obamacare lives and Kennewick Man is a Native American
WHEW! The Affordable Care Act (aka ACA, aka Obamacare) subsidies to help people buy health insurance got saved by the US Supreme Court after all, with the somewhat unexpected help (unexpected by me, anyway) of Chief Justice John Roberts. Here’s … Continue reading
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Coop’s Scoop: Do-It-Yourself, Together
Could a DIYbio lab be an alternative YMCA? A DIYbio Lab is a community space to exercise your mind instead of your body. Instead of learning to swim, opportunities for physical fitness, and socializing via team sports at the YMCA, … Continue reading
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