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Scientists find successful technique for choosing babies’ sex – NY study
Although the issue of sex selection raises serious ethical concerns, and selection of embryos on the basis of sex, without mitigating reasons such as...
Excessive knee jabs linked to industry's marketing payouts
Researchers in the US found that physicians accepting payments from drug and device companies administered significantly more hyaluronic acid (HA) injections – three times...
Call for guidelines and ethical boundaries in genetic editing therapies
While progress in the field of genetics is being lauded as heralding endless possibilities for the future, reservations have been expressed by some experts...
World’s first gene-edited babies’ creator relaunches career after prison release
The world’s first genetically edited children are living happily with their parents, according to He Jiankui, the controversial scientist who created three gene-edited babies...
Red flags after volunteer’s death in US gene editing study
A lone volunteer, who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy and was involved in a unique study of a gene-editing technique, has died, and those behind...
Biotech company plans to create embryos for organ harvesting
In a quest for novel forms of longevity medicine, an Israeli biotech company intends creating embryo-stage versions of humans to harvest tissues for use...
Euthanasia activist says SA doctors support legalising assisted dying
The former New Zealand professor and South African-born right-to-die activist Sean Davison said 10 doctors from this country had emailed him while he was...
Since COVID, doctors ‘less likely’ to resuscitate critical patients – UK study
COVID-19 may have changed doctors’ decision-making regarding end of life, making them more willing not to resuscitate very sick or frail patients and raising...
Euthanasia activist Sean Davison calls for law change after house arrest ends
Right-to-die activist Professor Sean Davison marked the end of his three-year house arrest sentence on Monday by calling for a law change by politicians...
Renowned medical journal rejects papers excluding African researchers
“Helicopter research” occurs when researchers from high-income settings, or who are otherwise privileged, conduct studies in lower-income settings or with groups who are historically...