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Popular Mechanics
January 2010
Amber Angelle |
How to Create a Designer Baby Women undergoing in vitro fertilization could one day choose to have a baby boy with perfect vision, an aptitude for sports and a virtual lock on avoiding colon cancer.   |
Wired
May 2002
Brian Alexander |
The Remastered Race Artificial chromosomes and in vitro screening are giving new life to the eugenics debate. The question is not whether we want to engineer embryos but how far it should go... |
Salon.com
May 21, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Clone free Francis Fukuyama warns that the combination of runaway biotechnology and individual freedom could lead to a social nightmare... |
Salon.com
January 31, 2001
Theresa Pinto Sherer |
Can two men make a baby? Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way... |
Reason
April 2001
Cathy Young |
Monkeying Around with the Self Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues... |
Wired
February 2002
Brendan I. Koerner |
Embryo Police Got designs on a designer baby? Egg sharing? Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection? Meet the citizens panel that's more than happy to make your reproductive choice for you... |
Salon.com
May 3, 1999
Dawn MacKeen |
The Clone Age Adventures in the new world of reproductive technology... |
Salon.com
June 27, 2000
Ralph Brave |
Building better humans The sci-fi possibilities of genetic tampering may soon become real. And there's no law against them. |
ifeminists
September 9, 2003
Carey Roberts |
Genetic Breakthrough Undercuts Androgeny Dogma Researchers were worrying about the longevity of the male species. This dismal view was turned on its head with a recent article published in the journal Nature. Dr. David Page of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported on two startling discoveries. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Genetic Testing Every day the prospect of individualized genetic testing is slowly becoming commonplace, and certain questions about genetic testing are apparent: What kinds of tests are available? Where can I get them? How accurate are they? And what are the costs? |
Reason
October 2003
Ronald Bailey |
Enough Already A leading environmentalist makes a foolish case against technological innovation. |
Salon.com
August 21, 2000
Lori B. Andrews |
Embryos under the knife The latest reproductive technology is just the next step on our sprint toward human cloning. |
Psychology Today
May/Jun 2008
Robert Kunzig |
Finding the Switch Homosexuality may persist because the associated genes convey surprising advantages on homosexuals' family members. |
Salon.com
October 5, 2000
Leah Kohlenberg |
Designer babies? Pediatrician and ethicist Joel Frader says that just because a family has had a child to provide a bone-marrow transplant for an ailing daughter, it doesn't mean custom-ordered kids are right around the corner... |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001 |
To clone or not to clone? As two scientists threaten to begin human cloning "within weeks," scientists and ethicists say the two are acting irresponsibly... |
Wired
January 2001
Brian Alexander |
(You)2 Human cloning has always been frightening, seductive - and completely out of reach. Not anymore... |
Scientific American
November 2007 |
Reviews Few books could present more implacably opposed views, and few could raise more provocative questions: The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel... Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People by John Harris... |
Reason
January 2006 |
Who's Afraid of Human Enhancement? Scientists, ethicists, American public policy makers and reporters debate the promise, perils, and ethics of human biotechnology. |
BusinessWeek
February 27, 2006
Catherine Arnst |
And Baby Makes...A Market "The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception" is a valuable, thought-provoking look at the baby-making business. |
TIME Asia
July 4, 2011
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham |
It's a Boy Largely as a result of sex-selective abortions, Asia today is short of 160 million women. |
Scientific American
June 2007
Sally Lehrman |
Going Beyond X and Y Babies born with mixed sex organs often get immediate surgery. New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about sex assignment and gender identity. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2007
Stephen Albainy-Jenei |
Attack of the Pod Cows The FDA has endorsed food from cloned animals. While the agency's conclusions don't exactly herald the invasion of the farm-animal snatchers, they do provide an open opportunity for companies that are well-positioned in the industry. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Fringe's Human Mutant Not Possible, Says Expert We won't ever have to worry about Fringe's part-mole-rat, part-scorpion, part-human mutant in real life because it's not within the realm of possibility. |
Reason
May 2009
Gregory Benford |
Choosing Our Own Future Will we greet new technologies with more regulation or more liberty? Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World, by David Friedman, addresses this issue. |
Fast Company
November 2013
Elizabeth Murphy |
Inside 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki's $99 DNA Revolution If Wojcicki gets it right, 23andMe could help change the health care industry as we know it. "At $99, we are opening the doors of access," she says. "Genetics is part of an entire path for how you're going to live a healthier life." |
Salon.com
May 25, 1999
Arthur Allen |
Is it in the genes? Is it in the genes?: Studies suggest human behavior isn't as predetermined as some thought. |
Chemistry World
November 21, 2007
John Bonner |
Female Reproductive System Can 'Sense' Sperm Female pigs detect when a boar's sperm arrives in their oviducts and trigger the release of proteins that help in fertilization. Corresponding proteins in humans could potentially be used to increase success in vitro fertilization. |
Reason
February 2009
Cheryl Miller |
Who's Your Daddy? Children of sperm donors are seeking more information about their once-anonymous fathers, sometimes at the risk of the fertility industry itself. |
Fast Company
September 2010
Scott Carney |
Human Egg Sales Raise Bioethical Issues Modern fertility technology has made parenthood a possibility for thousands more people, but it has also created a lucrative - and ethically questionable - global trade in human genetic material. |
Salon.com
January 9, 2001
Ralph Brave |
Decoding the genome Six new books tackle human biology's Holy Grail, but each fights its own crusade... |
Bio-IT World
July 11, 2002
Mark D. Uehling |
Flirting with Genomic Disaster A conversation with political scientist Francis Fukuyama about the prospect of ethics regulation in biotechnology. |
Salon.com
November 17, 1999
Kristi Coale |
Playing God Scary eugenics documents from the turn of the century shine a disturbing light on ethical dilemmas raised by genetic testing. |
Fast Company
September 2000
John Ellis |
The Secret of Life The mapping of the human genome, says Craig Venter, will change science, research, medicine, politics, health insurance, and the way biology looks at the last 3 billion years of evolution. And that's just the beginning. |
Managed Care
May 2001
Michael D. Dalzell |
Powerful Opportunities For Good and Greed Genetic advances could spawn incredible improvements in health care. Given public demand, they also pose what may be unmanageable issues of resource use... |
Fast Company
November 17, 2011
Anya Kamenetz |
The Case For Girls Most would-be parents prefer boys, not girls. Is part of the trouble, dare we say, a branding problem - one that advertising could solve? |
Reason
October 2006
Kerry Howley |
Ova for Sale The art of the deal in the gray market for human eggs, written by Donor #15. |
Managed Care
November 2006
Maureen Glabman |
Genetic Testing: Major Opportunity, Major Problems Whether a person is likely to develop diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia, or stroke will be reasonably well predicted, and tests can also determine whether a patient will respond to a given therapy. That's the good part. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Sarah C. P. Williams |
Stephen Quake: Innovative Thinking on Genetic Tests His ideas have already led to a blood test to tell a pregnant woman whether her fetus has Down syndrome. Now, the HHMI investigator is pushing further, to track the success of heart transplants and diagnose autoimmune diseases and allergies. |
AskMen.com
Sebastien Stefanov |
Are Modified Foods Dangerous? What foods are potentially dangerous, what are the risks and how can consumers protect themselves against this new industry? |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011 |
Crucibles of Dynamism Puzzling pockets of redundancy account for about 5 percent of the human genome. Investigator Evan Eichler found a way to interpret what is happening in these areas of genetic repetition. |
Wired
October 2009
Gregg Easterbrook |
Gregg Easterbrook: Embrace Human Cloning Human clones, it is widely assumed, would be monstrous perversions of nature. Yet chances are, you already know one. They walk among us in the form of identical twins. |
Chemistry World
July 2010
Anna Lewcock |
Medicine made to measure Healthcare tailored to suit the genetic makeup of the patient is finally coming to fruition. |
Managed Care
May 2005
Martin Sipkoff |
Predictive Modeling & Genomics: Marriage of Promise and Risk Integration of predictive modeling and genomic tools means improved technology, enhanced databases, and appropriate legal guidance. |
Chemistry World
February 25, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
US opens up home DNA screening The US Food and Drug Administration has, for the first time, authorized a genetic test to be sold directly to consumers. The agency plans to ease the regulatory path for similar screening tests. |
Wired
April 2003
Charles C. Mann |
New and Improved! A user's guide to your genetically modified future. |
AskMen.com
October 30, 2013
Michelle Magnan |
The Difference Between Usain Bolt And You: The point that David Epstein explores at length in The Sports Gene, is that no two people respond to sports training the same way, because no two genomes are the same. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 13, 2006
Manda Salls |
The Hidden Market for Babies Harvard professor Debora L. Spar discusses the research behind her book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception. |
Chemistry World
February 22, 2011
Amaya Camara-Campos |
Repairing faulty genes Israeli scientists have developed compounds that could be better treatments for genetic diseases than current drugs. |
Scientific American
June 2006 |
How to Kill Synthetic Biology Assembling a complete genetic circuit promises to advance biotechnology in much the same way that the invention of integrated circuits transfigured electronics. |
Salon.com
September 23, 2000
Jon Entine |
Olympic colors It's obvious that blacks dominate certain sports while whites dominate others. Why can't we talk openly about the genetics of athletic excellence? |
