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Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNA. Show all posts
Saturday, December 26, 2020

Baby God: how DNA testing uncovered a shocking web of fertility fraud

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Arian Horton The Guardian Originally published 2 Dec 20 Here ate two excerpts: The database unmasked, with detached clarity, a dark secret h...
Friday, November 20, 2020

When Did We Become Fully Human? What Fossils and DNA Tell Us About the Evolution of Modern Intelligence

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Nick Longrich singularityhub.com Originally posted 18 OCT 2020  Here are two excerpts: Because the fossil record is so patchy, fossils provi...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations.

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Christie Wilcox Quanta Magazine Originally posted 23 April 20 Here are several excerpts: The immediate benefit of sex for the algae is...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

10 Years Ago, DNA Tests Were The Future Of Medicine. Now They’re A Social Network — And A Data Privacy Mess

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Peter Aldhaus buzzfeednews.com Originally posted 11 Dec 19 Here is an excerpt: But DNA testing can reveal uncomfortable truths, too. F...
Monday, December 30, 2019

23 and Baby

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Tanya Lewis nature.com Originally posted 4 Dec 19 Here are two excerpts: Proponents say that genetic testing of newborns can help diag...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

DNA genealogical databases are a gold mine for police, but with few rules and little transparency

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Paige St. John The LA Times Originally posted 24 Nov 19 Here is an excerpt: But law enforcement has plunged into this new world...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Is biohacking ethical? It’s complicated. A new Netflix series explains why.

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Sigal Samuel www.vox.com Originally posted October 22, 2019 Here is an excerpt: Biohacking raises a lot of questions with huge ethical...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Super-precise new CRISPR tool could tackle a plethora of genetic diseases

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Heidi Ledford nature.com Originally posted October 21, 2019 For all the ease with which the wildly popular CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tool...
Monday, September 9, 2019

China approves ethics advisory group after CRISPR-babies scandal

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Hepeng Jia Nature.com Originally published August 8, 2019 China will establish a national committee to advise the government on research...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Proprietary Algorithms for Polygenic Risk: Protecting Scientific Innovation or Hiding the Lack of It?

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A. Cecile & J.W. Janssens Genes 2019, 10(6), 448 https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10060448 Abstract Direct-to-consumer genetic testi...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

World’s first ever human-monkey hybrid grown in lab in China

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Henry Holloway www.dailystar.co.uk Originally posted August 1, 2019 Here is an excerpt: Scientists have successfully formed a hybrid h...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Experts question the morality of creating human-monkey ‘chimeras’

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Kay Vandette www.earth.com Originally published July 5, 2019 Earlier this year, scientists at the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the ...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

Congress weighs dropping ban on altering the DNA of human embryos used for pregnancies

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Sharon Begley and Andrew Joseph www.statnews.xom Originally posted June 4, 2019 A congressional committee is expected to vote on Tuesday...
Friday, June 28, 2019

‘We as a species need to come to terms’ with CRISPR technology

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Ashley Turner www.CNBC.com Originally posted May 21, 2019 Here is an excerpt: Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Tuesday that...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Give The FBI Access to Your DNA

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Jennings Brown www.gizmodo.com Originally published April 3, 2019 A popular DNA-testing company seems to be targeting true crime fans wi...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Privacy, data science and personalised medicine. Time for a balanced discussion

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Claudia Pagliari LinkedIn.com Post Originally posted March 26, 2019 There are several fundamental truths that those of us working at the...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Chinese scientists create super monkeys by injecting brains with human DNA

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Harriet Brewis www.msn.com Originally published April 13, 2019 Chinese scientists have created super-intelligent monkeys by injecting th...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

China's Latest Cloned-Monkey Experiment Is an Ethical Mess

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Ryan F. Mandelbaum www.gizmodo.com Originally published January 19, 2019 Chinese researchers have cloned five gene-edited monkeys with...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Super-smart designer babies could be on offer soon. But is that ethical?

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Philip Ball The Guardian Originally posted November 19, 2018 Here is an excerpt: Before we start imagining a Gattaca-style future of ...
Monday, November 26, 2018

First gene-edited babies claimed in China

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Marilynn Marchione Associated Press Originally posted today A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world’s first genetica...