bioethics
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This Guy Just Injected Himself With A DIY HIV Treatment On Facebook Live
Tristan Roberts sits sandwiched between two men on a couch in a bland DC apartment, with leafy, dusk-lit trees peeking out from the sheer curtains behind him. The mundanity of the setting betrays the extremity of what is about to happen next. On the elliptical glass coffee table in front of him is a bottle…
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Scientists In The US Reportedly Just Edited A Human Embryo For The First Time
Human embryonic stem cells. Image: Wikimedia China has long been ahead of the US when it comes to human genetic engineering — there, the idea seems far less morally fraught. But for the first time, scientists in the United States have now genetically modified a human embryo, according to a new report in the MIT…
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This Controversial Doctor Wants To Use ‘Three-Parent’ Embryos To Treat Infertility
Last spring, John Zhang made headlines after his fertility clinic announced that for the first time a baby had been born using a new technique requiring three genetic parents. The baby’s mother carried the genes for a fatal nervous system disorder called Leigh syndrome, but Zhang had been able to keep the disease from being…
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Over 7000 Bodies May Be Buried Beneath Mississippi University
In what sounds like a clichéd horror movie premise, a recent investigation suggests as many as 7000 bodies are buried across 20 acres at the Mississippi Medical Center Campus — the former site of the state’s first mental institution. Officials at the university now face the grim task of pulling 100-year-old bodies out of the…