The names are many: embryoids, synthetic embryos, artificial embryos, embryo-like entities, but the central issues remain the same. Should we grow replicas of embryos in a dish? And if so, how exact is too exact?
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Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, pediatrician and director of the Hurley Medical Center's Pediatric Residency Program, discusses the Flint water crisis and the work that remains to be done.
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Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, cardiologist and director of the Heart Failure Program at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, discusses the challenges faced by caregivers and the importance of putting people first in the process of providing care.
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Dr. Francis L. Delmonico, past president of the United Network Organ Sharing (UNOS), Professor of Surgery in Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and current Advisor to the World Health Organization in Organ Donation and Transplantation discusses the ethics of organ trafficking and transplant.
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This article highlights options for increasing the supply of transplantable organs, and explore ethical constraints such as respect for autonomy, avoiding harm, and limitations related to the necessity for rationing.
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Dominic Mao, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in Molecular and Cellular Biology as well as Chemical and Physical Biology at Harvard University, discusses how CRISPR/Cas9 technologies are taught in the classroom.
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Henry T. Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School, discusses gene editing.
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Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney and Adams Chair for Internet Rights at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discusses genetic information privacy.
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