by Heather Zeiger | Jul 13, 2016 | Announcements, Science, Society
I have a new article at MercatorNet called “Blind Faith in DNA.” This article is cross-published at The Stream as “Be Wary of the Magical, Hyped-Up Claims About DNA” I wrote this article after Harvard’s George Church and several others...
by Heather Zeiger | Feb 10, 2016 | Announcements, Ethics, Human Dignity, Science, Society, Technology
I have a new article at The Stream on the U.S.’s Institute of Medicine’s recommendation that the FDA approve mitochondrial transfer, or what is being called “three-parent IVF” in the media. Read about it here.
by Heather Zeiger | May 2, 2015 | Ethics, Human Dignity, Science, Technology, Uncategorized
Genetically modifying adult cells is one thing. Genetically modifying an embryo is another. Why the difference? This fundamental difference is what has many scientists in an uproar over research out of China in which scientists genetically edited a human embryo....
by Heather Zeiger | Feb 24, 2015 | Science
Last week’s Nature was devoted to the results of the NIH’s Roadmap Epigenetics Project, marking the conclusion of this eight-year endeavor to investigate the “stuff” around (i.e., epi-) DNA that tells the genome what to do. I have used the analogy in the past that...
