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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
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... |
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
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. |
Reason
October 2006
Kerry Howley |
Ova for Sale The art of the deal in the gray market for human eggs, written by Donor #15. |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2000
Alix Christie |
The cord-blood controversy First we were supposed to eat the placenta. Now we're supposed to freeze it. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Stem Cells To Go ViaCell's goal is to mass-produce stem cells from umbilical cord blood. |
Wired
January 2004
Wendy Goldman Rohm |
Seven Days of Creation The inside story of a human cloning experiment |
Reason
April 2001
Cathy Young |
Monkeying Around with the Self Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues... |
Wired
January 2003
Charles C. Mann |
The First Cloning Superpower Inside China's race to become the clone capital of the world. |
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... |
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. |
Salon.com
May 25, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Our shiny happy clone future Procreation without sex, smarter babies and the right to choose the sexual orientation of your kids -- it's all good, says scientist Gregory Stock... |
Salon.com
May 3, 1999
Dawn MacKeen |
The Clone Age Adventures in the new world of reproductive technology... |
Salon.com
March 1, 2002
Jennifer Foote Sweeney |
A cruel choice A woman decides to have a child knowing that she's about to descend into dementia. That's morally indefensible... |
ifeminists
September 21, 2005
Jennifer Roback Morse |
Is There a Right to Have a Baby? A California case in which a lesbian couple is suing an infertility clinic suggests we may be closer than we think to establishing a right to have a baby. And far from being an advance for women's liberty, this development would be a disaster for everyone's freedom. |
Reason
October 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Blastocyst Brouhaha Which human cells count as people? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2012
Ben Comer |
Stem Cells: A Promise Deferred? Ideology, politics, and a stilted political debate may be causing pharma to overlook the potential of emerging stem cell therapies in fostering a new generation of cures. |
American Family Physician
March 1, 2006 |
Caring for Your New Baby An informative guide: How many wet diapers should my baby have?... How often should my baby have a bowel movement should I give my baby vitamin D?... What is jaundice?... How should I care for my baby's umbilical cord?... etc. |
Salon.com
August 25, 2000
Jay Dixit |
Designer eggs This month a panel of medical experts responded to a Web pornographer who tried to auction supermodel eggs. |
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. |
Wired
June 2005
Clive Thompson |
How to Farm Stem Cells Without Losing Your Soul A solution to the stem cell dilemma that even the Vatican can love. |
Salon.com
June 25, 2002
Susan Straight |
Flour power The authorities have decided that hauling around sacks of flour will teach middle schoolers not to get pregnant. My daughter and I think it's a half-baked idea. |
Salon.com
December 29, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Will Thompson, Bush clash over human embryo research? The HHS nominee supports it, but right-to-lifers want it stopped.... |
ifeminists
September 14, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Will Science Trump Politics in Resolving Abortion Debate? For better or worse, new reproductive technologies are redefining the scientific ground rules of reproduction. These technologies may also redefine the American politics surrounding reproduction, including the issue of abortion. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Cassandra Willyard |
A Faster Knockout With a virus, a needle, and an ultrasound machine, researchers have drastically cut the time it takes to disable a gene in mice. |
American Family Physician
February 15, 2002 |
Jaundice and Your Baby What is jaundice?... Why do some babies get jaundice?... How can I tell if my baby has jaundice?... How is jaundice treated?... |
Salon.com
June 25, 2001
Viktor Frolke |
"Professor Death" Controversial bioethicist Peter Singer talks about the difference between humans and animals (none), the virtues of euthanasia (many) and why some babies are better off dead... |
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? |
Salon.com
August 28, 2002
Susanna Stromberg |
Embracing death A recent study says that parents who hold their stillborn infants may be traumatized by the experience. Yes, the moments I spent with my dying newborn were the most painful of my life -- but they were also the richest. |
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. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Let The Facebook Baby-Tagging Extravaganza Begin Baby plays a central role in Mommy and Daddy's social media life. Facebook knows this. That's why they're fine-tuning the way babies appear on the site. |
Fast Company
Blake Miller |
The Creepiest New Corner Of Instagram: Role-Playing With Stolen Baby Photos Instagram users steal images of babies and children off the Internet, give them a new name, and claim them as their own. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Face Transplants 101 As the name suggests, face transplants are procedures wherein some or all of a patient's face is replaced. The reason for a transplant could be facial trauma, burns, diseases, or birth defects. |
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. |
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
March 1, 2007
Sarah Houlton |
Global Report: Ready ... Set ... The European Parliament has launched a formal process for assessing therapies developed through stem-cell research. Ethical issues that have wrangled US regulators, though, still need attention. |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2004 |
Colic: What You Should Know A patient guide to crying in babies lasting more than three hours a day, for several days a week and for longer than three weeks. |
Salon.com
December 8, 2000
Jenna Glatzer |
A genetic death sentence Doctors routinely deny heart transplants to the mentally retarded... |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2007
Brian Orelli |
A Stem-Cell Primer Public funding from states could help companies doing stem cell research. Read about Geron, StemCells, Osiris Therapeutics, ViaCell and Invitrogen, companies that may profit from the increased public spending. |
Chemistry World
April 2010 |
Column: The crucible We are getting better at manipulating cells to grow into the tissues we need. Chemical factors are key, says Philip Ball |
Fast Company
March 2008
Elizabeth Svoboda |
Eureka? Alan Trounson, the new president of California's stem-cell agency, talks about the science, the opposition, and his qualms about working with embryos. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
Breaking Rules and Saving Lives Cord blood offers an ethical means of using stem cells to heal illness. While two top companies in the field are private, over the counter traded Cryo-Cell lost as much money as it collected in revenues last year. |
Reason
November 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Ice, Ice Baby Stigmatizing terms, such as `ice babies' and `meth babies,' lack scientific validity and should not be used, said a group of nearly 100 physicians, researchers, and addiction specialists in an open letter to the news media. |
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... |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Britain Unleashes the Wolfman The chimerical future is here. Britain's Human Fertilization and Embryo Authority announced that it will permit scientists to create human-animal hybrid embryos. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Baby Breaks the Bank Resist the urge to splurge when preparing for your bundle of joy. |
