Category Science and Technology

Pigs as Spare (Human) Parts

Syd M Johnson maintains that we need to consider the ethical implications of growing organs for humans in pigs.

Not Your Grandpa’s Biotechnology

Carlos Mariscal and Angel Petropanagos argue that we need to pay more attention to the ethical issues surrounding CRISPR, the new gene editing technology.

GET OUT OF THE WAY to PAVE THE WAY

Barry Hoffmaster discusses Steven Pinker’s call for bioethics to “get out of the way.”

Scientific illiteracy is not the tragedy of our times

Maya J. Goldenberg challenges the role of science in policy debates.

Let’s talk about the ethics of germline modification

Gregor Wolbring conveys the need for clarity in the call for public discussion about human germline genetic modification.