Biotech Ethics BLOG
This blog is about ethical issues in the biotechnology industry. That includes all 3 main areas of that industry: health biotech, food biotech, and industrial biotech. (The last two are particularly important, and don't get enough attention.)
Unlike my Business Ethics Blog, this one will focus on aggregating information, rather than offering much commentary.
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Business Ethics & Genomics: Interview
I was recently interviewed for the newsletter of Genome Atlantic, about my work at the intersection of Business Ethics & biotechnology / genomics. (I sit on a Genome Atlantic advisory body known as the “GE3LS Forum”. “GE3LS” stands for “Genomics-related, … Continue reading
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Disabilities & Genetic Testing
By bioethicist Arthur Caplan, writing for MSNBC: Disability-free world may not be a better place …Gene testing of parental carriers is leading to the birth of fewer and fewer children with inherited diseases in the United States. Other conditions such … Continue reading
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Genetic Tests for Determining Fetal Sex
It’s safe. It’s accurate. It predicts the sex of a fetus, at just a few weeks’ pregnancy. And it’s not being sold direct-to-consumers for at-home use. Yet. From the LA Times: A new test to reveal a baby’s gender revives … Continue reading
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Gene Doping & the Olympics
Cutting-edge medicine is perhaps most likely to be sought out by those with desperate need. Desperately ill people might be the first group of such people to come to mind. But what about people who are desperately driven to win … Continue reading
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Mistrusting GM Foods: Is It the Product, or the Pusher?
From Australian Food News: Australians “uncomfortable” with GM food The headline might be a bit misleading. Because a big part of what the story actually says is not that Australians are uncomfortable with GM food per se, but that they’re … Continue reading
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