What's next for the gene-edited children from CRISPR trial in China?
29 June 2022
Scientists in China are considering how best to look after three children who were gene-edited as embryos in He Jiankui’s controversial experiment
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How can we prevent AI from being racist, sexist and offensive?
17 June 2022
Artificial intelligences continue to exhibit the same biases and prejudices as humans because they are trained on what we create, but there are ways we can improve the situation
Samir Shaheen-Hussain interview: Doctors left children to suffer
4 August 2021
Discoveries of mass graves of Indigenous children in Canada have prompted new scrutiny of the residential school system – including the role physicians played in unethical experiments, says paediatrician Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Why you probably aren't as moral as you think you are
28 October 2020
Thanks to virtual reality, we can run experiments that test what people will do in situations where lives are on the line. We often find people act against what they claim to regard as morally acceptable, says Sylvia Terbeck
Eugenics
21 July 2020
Eugenics is the highly controversial idea that humanity could be improved by controlling who can produce children and pass on their genes
Cloning
17 July 2020
Cloning is the process of creating organisms that are genetically identical. These organisms are identical twins and are to some extent copies of each other.
Which covid-19 patients will get a ventilator if there's a shortage?
26 March 2020
If there's a ventilator shortage, doctors and ethicists say priority should be given to people with the best chance of recovery and most years likely left to live
Should animals with human genes or organs be given human rights?
18 February 2020
Gene-edited pigs and brain implants are blurring the lines of what it means to be human, so our morals and laws may need to change to include beings that are “substantially human”
Open collaboration makes CERN great – let’s do it for climate change
20 November 2019
The model of collaboration between scientists across national borders has proved its worth at the CERN particle physics lab. It would also work to fight climate change
Approval of golden rice could finally end vitamin A deficiency deaths
20 November 2019
Genetically modified golden rice finally seems set for approval where it is needed to address vitamin A deficiency, but anti-scientific misinformation campaigns continue, says Michael Le Page
