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Topic: Bioethics

Insect design integrated with microchip. (Getty Images / Chayanan)

Cyborg bugs are here: Are they ethical?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
In this photo illustration, Elizabeth Snouffer, whose had type 1 diabetes for most of her life, displays her insulin capsule which she needs to take daily on March 02, 2023 in New York City. (Illustration by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The biohackers who make DIY insulin

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Mammoth is partially thawed and emerging from the ice block (Getty Images)

Cloning a mammoth: Hype vs. reality

Matthew Rozsa
(Wellcome Images/Michael Frank, Royal Veterinary College)

Will uterus transplants subvert gender?

Chris Sosa - Alternet
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A replica of a saber-tooth tiger at the "Giganten Der Eizeit" exhibition in St Peter-Ording, Germany. (Getty/Krafft Angerer)

Bring back the Ice Age megafauna!

Katherine DM Clover
Major League Baseball Commissioner-elect Rob Manfred participates in the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP/Vanessa A. Alvarez)

ALS gets an ethical debate

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A photograph of 13-year-old Jahi McMath is seen on a necklace in Oakland, California December 24, 2013. (Reuters/Stephen Lam)

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Michael White - Pacific Standard
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((Wikimedia/Richard Wheeler, Zephyris))

Natasha Lennard
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