Post Tagged with: "Eugenics"

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  Designer Babies on the Loose

  Policymakers fear a slippery slope that could open the door for “designer babies.”
   
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  Designer Babies Get New Designs

  New embryonic gene editing procedure could wipe thousands of genetic disorders from future generations.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Stronger Labs, Stronger Offspring?

  This method may someday help human mothers conceive with artificial eggs and produce healthier babies.
   
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  A Socionomic Study of Eugenics: Will You Make the Cut?

  Alan Hall reveals how the large mood fluctuations shaped the eugenics movement in America and abroad and how it not only changes people’s valuation of financial and other assets — it changes how humans value others. Hall puts the pieces of the puzzle together and makes a startling forecast for a resurging ideology most believe to be dead.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Got Cloned

  Creating animal-human hybrids evokes mythical creatures like satyrs, griffins and centaurs. But some scientists say
   
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  [Mood Riffs] We’re Not Cloning Around

  Two biotechnology firms announced a joint venture to open “the world’s largest animal cloning center.”
   
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  [Mood Riffs] State Compensates Victims of Former Eugenics Program

  North Carolina has sent payments to victims of a eugenics program that it operated between…
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Court to Rule on Sterilization of Disabled Man

  The United Kingdom’s Court of Protection will decide this month if a man with
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Minority Report

  “[M]urderers’ brains showed what appeared to be a significant reduction in the
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Avian Resurrection

  Scientists at the late March TedX in DC met to discuss, now that we have the technology, which animals should be