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Salon.com
October 5, 2000
Leah Kohlenberg |
Designer babies? Pediatrician and ethicist Joel Frader says that just because a family has had a child to provide a bone-marrow transplant for an ailing daughter, it doesn't mean custom-ordered kids are right around the corner...   |
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... |
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... |
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... |
AskMen.com
August 19, 2001
Joshua Levine |
The Ins & Outs Of Heredity If you've ever worried that you might inherit something undesirable from your parents, this is your article... |
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. |
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
May 3, 1999
Dawn MacKeen |
The Clone Age Adventures in the new world of reproductive technology... |
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. |
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... |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2000 |
Sickle Cell Disease Sickle cell disease is a blood disease that children inherit from their parents. The disease causes the red blood cells to make abnormal hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the part of blood that carries oxygen in the body... |
Salon.com
November 17, 1999
Kristi Coale |
Playing God Scary eugenics documents from the turn of the century shine a disturbing light on ethical dilemmas raised by genetic testing. |
Popular Mechanics
November 27, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Stem Cells 2.0: Beyond the Hype, Engineers Look to Build Fast Engineers play the important role of making lab bench discoveries reproducible and efficient for use in industry. |
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... |
Reason
October 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Blastocyst Brouhaha Which human cells count as people? |
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. |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2005
Wattendorf & Hadley |
Family History: The Three-Generation Pedigree The three-generation pedigree provides a pictorial representation of diseases within a family and is the most efficient way to assess hereditary influences on disease. |
Reason
October 2006
Kerry Howley |
Ova for Sale The art of the deal in the gray market for human eggs, written by Donor #15. |
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. |
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. |
Wired
January 2004
Wendy Goldman Rohm |
Seven Days of Creation The inside story of a human cloning experiment |
Chemistry World
January 20, 2009
Nina Notman |
Raman hope for childless couples A non-invasive way to test the quality of sperm to be use in fertility treatments has been developed by UK scientists. |
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. |
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 22, 2004 |
Fertility Tourism Many aspiring parents dislike the laws that control fertility in the UK and are attracted by the more flexible foreign policies. |
Wired
January 2001
Brian Alexander |
(You)2 Human cloning has always been frightening, seductive - and completely out of reach. Not anymore... |
American Journal of Nursing
August 2010
Lomas & Fowler |
Parents and Children with Cystic Fibrosis A survey was conducted to estimate how many adult patients with cystic fibrosis who receive care at centers accredited by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation also have biological children with the disease. |
Wired
November 2002
David Ewing Duncan |
DNA as Destiny DNA is the book of life. It's also the book of death. In the future we'll all be read cover to cover. Here's what it's like to take the world's first top-to-bottom gene scan. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Stem Cells To Go ViaCell's goal is to mass-produce stem cells from umbilical cord blood. |
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. |
Chemistry World
August 29, 2008
John Bonner |
Chip test for IVF embryos US researchers may have found a new way to assess the health of embryos produced by in vitro fertilization, using a lab on a chip approach to measure their uptake of nutrients. |
Reason
April 2001
Cathy Young |
Monkeying Around with the Self Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues... |
Psychology Today
Sep/Oct 2007
Mark Teich |
A Man's Shelf Life As men age, their fertility decreases and the health risks to their unborn offspring skyrocket. But men who attend to their health can slow down the reproductive clock. |
Wired
October 2003
Wendy Goldman Rohm |
The Test-Tube Family Reunion Louise Brown turns 25. Happy Birthday, IVF. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Christine Soares |
Cancer Clues from Embryonic Development Rethinking cancer by seeing tumors as a cellular pregnancy. |
Wired
September 2001
Sara Solovitch |
The Citizen Scientists United by the Net and emboldened by their numbers, parents of desperately ill children are funneling millions into research, building vast genetic databases, and rewriting the rules of the medical industry.... |
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.... |
BusinessWeek
October 23, 2008 |
The Story in Your Genes There's tremendous value in genetic data, but it depends on how deeply you look. |
Managed Care
May 2005
Martin Sipkoff |
Predictive Modeling & Genomics: Marriage of Promise and Risk Integration of predictive modeling and genomic tools means improved technology, enhanced databases, and appropriate legal guidance. |
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. |
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. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2006 |
When Your Child Has Sickle Cell Disease A patient's guide: What is sickle cell disease?... What problems can sickle cell disease cause?... What should I do if my child with sickle cell disease is in pain?... etc. |
Fast Company
November 2009
David H. Freedman |
The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens. |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2000 |
Sickle Cell Disease in Childhood: Part I. Laboratory Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Health Maintenance Family physicians and parents who have been educated about sickle cell disease can detect acute, life-threatening complications such as splenic sequestration crisis and acute chest syndrome at their onset, thereby allowing treatment to be instituted without delay... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
2008 Medical Science Developments Here are some 2008 medical science developments that might just yield the next big breakthrough. |
Bio-IT World
July 15, 2003
Kevin Davies |
Stem Cell Suicide The International Society for Stem Cell Research must engage in a political discourse to salvage the hope of embryonic stem cell research. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2001
Lisa Moricoli Latham |
What are we fighting for? I just lost a pregnancy, but gained new insight into the stem cell debate... |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Jackie Stevens |
Does capitalism make you sick? Gene studies are sexy and well funded, but they can buttress racial thinking and distract the public from the socioeconomic roots of disease. |
