Debating the word “naturalness”
I’m not surprised that a new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, an influential independent British bioethics think tank, has received no publicity. “Ideas...
Summit fails to ban genetic engineering of human embryos
Door needs to be left open for further possibilties. Gene-editing with the four-year-old CRISPR technique is already so promising that a meeting of American, British...
Debate begins over ethics of genetic editing
The same issues as the fight over embryonic stem cells At the heart of the debate over the use of CRISPR technology for gene-editing is...
Chinese scientists could clone humans
Plants in Tianjin plans to produce one million cloned cows a year by 2020.The Boyalife cloning factory in Tianjin Cloning has been off the...