So I finally did it. I sat down and read The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. And while many question Kurzweil's calculations, and his unbounded
I was not going to write about this new development in prenatal genetic testing for a couple of reasons. First because I have written about this
This is so typical of the media. The Vancouver Sun is reporting that, for the first time EVER, Type I diabetes in MICE has been reversed...with
Many people are talking about Michael Hanlon's piece in the Daily Mail about the first genetically modified babies being born. I want to discuss
Do you remember Saturday Night Live's Pat, the androgynous character played by Julia Sweeney? Sketch after sketch, the cast of SNL ask a barrage
With a $5 million gift from alumni Elizabeth and Michael Gallagher, Notre Dame is ramping up its adult stem cell research. From Phys.org:
A British ethics committee has recommended going forward with creating human embryos with 3 genetic parents. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics,
The Church has always rejected surrogacy and for very good reason. It objectifies both the woman whose womb has been rented and the child for
Dr. Jérôme Lejeune was a remarkable man. He was the geneticist who discovered the cause of Down Syndrome and his was a devout Catholic. Dr.
I have realized what separates the progressive way of solving humanity's problems and the right way. Poverty, disease, pain, disability, unintended
Aniridia is a genetic condition where those that have the genetic mutation are born without all or part of the iris, the part of the eye that
The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that children conceived posthumously with IVF are not entitled to Social Security survivor benefits.
This is no surprise for those of us who were paying attention during the stem cell frenzy of the last decade. We remember the irony that in 2006,
Parents from South Carolina have traveled to India and paid tens of thousands of dollars to have their 6 year-old son injected with embryonic
What do you do when you have created 18 extra IVF embryos and you don't want to destroy them or give them away to just anyone? You put them on