Seeking to change a population, to increase the occurrence of chosen characteristics that are believed to be both heritable and desirable.
Professor of stem cell science, Dusko Ilic, discusses concerns raised by the plans of a US-based startup – the (new) Manhattan Project – to create genome-edited babies…
Professor Rachel Bowlby, author of a new book about the French novelist Émile Zola, discusses falling birthrates with a comparison from 1896...
The second session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?', focused on the opportunities and challenges presented by using human embryos in research...
This piece by Vanessa Burns, exploring the impact the impact that CRISPR-based genome editing will have over the next 25 years, won the second prize in the inaugural Marcus Pembrey BioNews Writing Competition...
A timely conversation focused on the bioethical concerns wrapped up in the clinical use of polygenic embryo screening...
Do we need to prepare for a technology that may put into question the very nature of being human? Noor Siddiqui, the founder of Orchid Health, discuses how the company is using gene technology so people can 'have healthy babies'...
This film documents a lecture by Sandy Starr – deputy director of PET – about the life and legacy of JBS Haldane, who at one time was the best-known scientist in Britain and who helped to pioneer the idea of IVF...
A new dialogue report shows backing from members of the public for the extension of the 14-day limit on human embryo research...
The BBC has dramatised the work of Dr Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe to create the world's first IVF baby, in this latest radio play, bringing their story to a much wider audience, writes Anne Galvin...
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