Numerous chronic diseases have a substantial hereditary component. Recent advances in
human genetics have allowed the extent of this to be quantified via genome-wide …

Polygenic genome editing in human embryos and germ cells is predicted to become
feasible in the next three decades. Several recent books and academic papers have …

Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how new genetic technologies
will enable parents to influence the traits of their children, including their intelligence, moral …

The precautionary principle aims to influence decision‐making in contexts where some
activity poses uncertain but potentially grave threats. This perfectly describes the controversy …

The idea that a world in which everyone was born “perfect” would be a world in which
something valuable was missing often comes up in debates about the ethics of technologies …

While humans have made enormous progress in the exploration and exploitation of Earth,
exploration of outer space remains beyond current human capabilities. The principal …

Debemos aprovechar sin duda los beneficios que traen las nuevas tecnologías, y debemos
aplicarlas al propio ser humano en la medida en que una reflexión prolongada y serena nos …

Resum En aquest article sostinc que la revolució genètica, és a dir, l'adveniment d'una sèrie
de tecnologies genètiques altament transformadores i disruptives, tindrà lloc en els pròxims …

The desire to transform ourselves into something better than we are now is as old as
humanity. But the ability to use biomedical technologies to enhance our capacities is new. In …

Participants in the long-running bioethical debate over human germline genetic modification
(HGGM) tend to imagine future people abstractly and on the basis of conventionalized …