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Should Pandora’s Brain Be Regulated?
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We Should Be Concerned About Athletes Having to ‘Dope Down’
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Rationality as Understood by a Neanderthal
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Why Avoid the “M-Word” in Human Genome Editing?
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Moratorium on Human Genome Editing: Time to Get It Right
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Do You Want the Police Snooping in Your DNA?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayIn late April, a suspect thought to be the Golden State Killer, a man who had eluded police for decades after committing a string of murders and rapes in Northern California and Orange County between 1976 and 1986, was identified on the basis of DNA evidence. Although we celebrate the dogged pursuit ...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Vive la Bioéthique? France’s Bioethics Initiative
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayLittle noticed in the United States but a big deal in France, President Emmanuel Macron announced in January that he is creating a bioethics commission to review the country’s policies on a wide range of subjects, including human reproduction, euthanasia, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. ...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
A New Mind-Body Problem
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayNot since Rene Descartes gazed from his garret window in early 17th-century Paris and wondered whether those were men or hats and coats covering “automatic machines” he saw roaming the streets has the issue of personal identity and your cranium been of such import. Descartes feared a world that h...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Should We Get Ready for Prime Time?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayFor the first few years after my husband Howard died, I talked to him often. These were not ghostly, paranormal encounters; I was just thinking out loud about my life without him. Ten years later, these occasions happen less frequently, usually connected with an anniversary or a family event. In my i...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
International Sharing of Biological Specimens and Health Data: A Gap in the Consent Process?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThe Precision Medicine Initiative plans to collect data and biological samples from one million or more individuals in the United States and engage in internationally collaborative research. That means that genetic and other information about these people could be shared with researchers around the w...Read the Post
Science and the Self
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