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This second article originating from G&H’s exclusive interview with Navigenics’ Medical Director Dr Michael Nierenberg takes a look at the service you will receive if you subscribe to Navigenics’ genomic wellness service.
The Navigenics service
When you sign up to the Navigenics service you effectively enrol as a member and not as a patient or customer. For US$2,500 […]
Scientists from Newcastle University, UK led by Professor Patrick Chinnery, have created an embryo with three separate parents. The team believe the technique could help to eradicate a whole class of hereditary diseases, including some forms of epilepsy and ensure women with genetic defects do not pass the diseases on to their children.
Ten severely deformed embryos, left […]
In Joan Rothschild’s The Dream of the Perfect Child, she looks at how prenatal testing has changed the way families experience pregnancy and public perception of disability. About three decades ago, ultrasound, amniocentesis, and other prenatal tests became a routine part of a pregnant woman’s prenatal care. Since then, parents have agonized before, during, and […]
To what do we owe our children and to ourselves as parents? Do we have the right to demand perfection in both talents and health?
One way to ensure that we have “better” children is to train them once they’re born. Another way would be to manipulate their cells in utero or even at the […]
Yes, I’m slacking before the holidays (although I did make it over 1,000 posts yesterday). Thank goodness my friend Doris sent me this link to the audio recording of NPR’s All Things Considered.
Many Clinics Use Genetic Diagnosis to Choose Sex by Lonny Shavelson
Some doctors analyze an embryo’s DNA so parents can choose to have a […]
As a parent, I know how futile it is to try to make my child something he’s not. And that extends to his genetic make-up. The burgeoning field of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), however, makes it possible for parents to exert a determining force in some of the major characteristics of their children. Dr. […]
Pediatric Grand Rounds #16 is up at Aetiology! Thanks to Tara who compiled it while on Thanksgiving vacation. Neonatal Doc’s contribution about switching parents got my attention particularly because the idea of genetically engineering “perfect” children seems the opposite side of the coin. Kids can’t choose their parents but parents are already able to choose […]
A pair of twin boys have been born free of the genes for cystic fibrosis after they were selected as embryos using preimplantation genetic haplotyping (PGH). Interestingly, their parents opted to undergo PGH even though they already have a previous set of twins, one of whom has cystic fibrosis.
Unlike the more common method of preimplantation […]
Dean Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY writes in the Baptist Press about a “techno-uptopian Reich” that will help to create a society divided by those who avail themselves of genetic engineering and those who think it’s wrong. His focus is on Christians, of course, but the message applies to […]
One of the aims of the Genetics and Health interview series is to present different viewpoints on genetics. And today’s interview with Rebecca Taylor of Mary Meets Dolly is definitely a little different than most of what you’ll encounter. Typically, science blogs are written by atheists or people who don’t have a strong religious […]
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