Kian Sadeghi is the founder and CEO of Nucleus Genomics, a genetic testing company that screens embryos for disease and ...

Allele: Alternate forms of a gene. For example, human blood type has 3 alleles -- A, B, and O. Each human being inherits 2 alleles for every gene function, 1 from each parent. Gene therapy: Treatment ...

A new tool allows parents undergoing in vitro fertilization to screen their embryos for health issues, but is it ethical? Genetic disease is believed to be linked to 41 percent of U.S. infants' deaths ...

Discussions about ethics are important in many aspects of health care but are especially critical when the health care includes genetic testing. There are several aspects of genetic testing that may ...

The mega-ethical question of who and what is a human being is brought to one’s mind with increasing frequency by the accelerating advances in scientific technology. As human beings increasingly apply ...

What if you could screen embryos for diseases before they became babies? What if you had the power to choose the traits your baby would have? Would you use it? These practically polar opposite ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia School of Law will host a conference on genetics law and ethics this spring. Gabbard denies hiding whistleblower complaint: 'A blatant lie' ...

In science, ethical guidelines ensure that research takes place in a way that respects public trust and is conducted ...

A population genetics team recently identified the genetic relationship between over 40,000 23andMe users and a population of enslaved and free African Americans that lived in Catoctin Furnace, ...

In June, as the public and private genome projects prepared to announce the rough mapping of the human genome, a special Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) genetics ethics committee was ...

World Athletics (WA) and World Boxing have recently reinstated genetic testing for all athletes competing in female categories in world-ranking competitions to determine biological sex. While framed ...