Hacker News with Generative AI: Bioethics

Henrietta Lacks Seems Like a Nice Person, but Not a Scientific Hero (astralcodexten.com)
Henrietta Lacks was a black woman who died of cancer in 1951. During her treatment, doctors took a sample of the cancer. The sample ended up with a researcher who noticed the cells were much more resilient than any other cell type then known, cancerous or otherwise. This made them extremely useful for biology experiments, and now a substantial portion of world bio research is done on cells descended from Lacks’ cancer.

Science, Ethics, History, Bioethics

16 points by NavinF 3 days ago | 17 comments

'Unprecedented risk': Scientists call for halt on 'mirror life' research (theguardian.com)
World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth.

Science, Biology, Bioethics, Synthetic Biology

9 points by aard 36 days ago | 2 comments

Jennifer Doudna on the Brave New World Being Ushered in by Gene Editing (newyorker.com)
In 2012, the biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier developed a method for using RNA-guided proteins to edit specific sections of DNA.

Gene Editing, Biology, Science, CRISPR, Bioethics

6 points by mitchbob 90 days ago | 1 comments

China bans clinical research in germline genome editing as 'irresponsible' (scmp.com)

China, Genetics, Bioethics, Scientific Research

7 points by belter 186 days ago | 0 comments

Scientists build robot controlled by a brain in a jar (sciencefocus.com)

Robotics, Neuroscience, Bioethics, Artificial Intelligence

15 points by sabrina_ramonov 190 days ago | 7 comments

One man's DNA became a pillar of genetics (statnews.com)

Genetics, Science, Medicine, Bioethics

14 points by chapulin 191 days ago | 0 comments

85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient (popsci.com)