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  Should a human-pig chimera be treated as a person?

  Quartz - Julian Savulescu

  Even if a sufficient guarantee of safety could be achieved, there are further ethical problems that should concern us.

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  What is CRISPR? The revolutionary gene-editing tech explained

  Wired UK - Matt Reynolds

  A precise, inexpensive way of editing DNA could open up new paths to treating disease and improving our crops, but the technology is already proving …

• Felicia Damiano

  

  Surgical robot makes highly precise eye injection possible

  Engadget - Mariella Moon

  In a world first, surgeons were able to perform a difficult eye procedure with the robot's help. For the first time ever, a team of eye surgeons were able to inject a thrombolytic drug directly into a patient's retinal vein to dissolve a blood clot. It was a success despite the fact that the vein is …

• Felicia Damiano

  

  Reached Via a Mind-Reading Device, Deeply Paralyzed Patients Say They Want to Live

  MIT Technology Review - Emily Mullin

  A brain-computer interface records “yes” and “no” answers in patients who lack any voluntary muscle movement. In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a …

• Felicia Damiano

  

  Germ-killing dental implant has a heart of mouthwash

  newatlas.com - By Ben Coxworth

  Typically, dental implants take the form of a false tooth with a titanium screw extending out the bottom. That screw goes into the bone, permanently …

• http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/humans-are-still-evolving-and-we-can-watch-it-happen?et_cid=494353&et_rid=17106390

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  robin wright

  May 18, 2016