A New Era of Designer Babies May Be Based on Overhyped Science

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July 12, 2021

Biology A New Era of Designer Babies May Be Based on Overhyped Science Genetic testing with IVF is being marketed as a means to choose a healthy embryo, despite questions about the soundness of the technology By Laura Hercher

Climate Soaring Temperatures, Wildfire Threaten California's Power Grid Residents were asked to limit energy use as another heat dome baked the region By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Space Virgin Galactic Launches Richard Branson to Space in 1st Fully Crewed Flight of VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo make a successful, crewed suborbital test flight to 282,000 feet (86 kilometers) above Earth's surface By Chelsea Gohd,SPACE.com

Physics Plasma Particle Accelerators Could Find New Physics The next big collider will likely rely on novel technology By Chandrashekhar Joshi

Biology Wolves Raised by Humans Can't Understand People like Dogs Can Dog puppies are 30 times more interested in unknown humans than young wolves, confirming an evolutionary hypothesis By Tess Joosse

Arts & Culture Exploring Black Sci-Fi, Learning through Color, the Cost of Cooling, and Other New Books Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American By Amy Brady

Behavior & Society The Power of Local Celebrities in the Fight against Vaccine Hesitancy They can play a key role in the fight against misinformation By Dan Gillmor,Steven Corman,Michael Simeone

Space How to Tell if Extraterrestrial Visitors Are Friend or Foe They'll most likely be robotic, guided by AI—so we'll need our own AI to figure it out By Avi Loeb

Public Health Let's Use the Lessons from COVID to End HIV A good start: take testing and prevention out of the clinic and meet people where they are By Emily Rymland

Policy & Ethics In Case You Missed It Top news from around the world By Sarah Lewin Frasier

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Brave New World? Not Even Close Scientists have edited a human embryo, but we're not in scary scifi territory by a long shot By James Kath,Noam Prywes | August 2017

QUOTE OF THE DAY "I think we have to be very aware of our history," Lázaro-Muñoz says, "in terms of sterilization and state-mandated programs in the past that were aimed at...exterminating individuals with some of these conditions." Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, bioethicists at the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine

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