Tag Archives: biotechnology

Gene Editing: God’s Will or God’s Won’t

Posted on November 30, 2017 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Leonard M. Fleck, PhD Give God a rest; do your own gene editing (and thinking). On August 2, 2017 the New York Times headline read, “In Breakthrough, Scientists … Continue reading →

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Defining The Spectrum of “Normal”: What is a Disease?

Posted on October 20, 2016 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series By Jennifer Carter-Johnson, JD, PhD The world of Gattaca once seemed a faraway place where some babies had genetic defects corrected before birth resulting in two classes within … Continue reading →

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Designing Children: Patents and the Market are not Sufficient Regulation

Posted on November 20, 2014 by

This post is a part of our Bioethics in the News series. For more information, click here. By Jennifer Carter-Johnson, PhD, JD In an October report entitled “Breeding Out Disease,” 60 MINUTES correspondent Nora O’Donnell reported on the use of pre-implantation genetic … Continue reading →

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