Tag: gametes

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, biotechnology, blastocyst, cells, CRISPR, embryology, embryonic stem cells, embryos, gametes, genetic engineering, human embryos, human experimentation, implantation, morality, petri dish, pluripotent stem cells, public policy, Science News, synthetic embryos, UCLA}

Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

5}

Once again, biotechnology is racing ahead of our capacity to intellectually digest what is happening. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 13, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, biotechnology, children, family, fathers, gametes, genomes, in vitro fertilization, mothers, ovum, parenthood, sperm}

Our Looming Procreative Anarchy

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 13, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

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It is no secret that the traditional family is under unprecedented assault. But we haven’t seen anything yet. Read More ›

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Date
August 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bioRxiv, CELS 2021, CRISPR, DNA, Emily Reeves, epigenetics, evolution, finches, gametes, genetic information, geneticists, hybridization, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Methanoperedens, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, New Scientist, organelles, Peter and Rosemary Grant, PNAS, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen, zygote}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
August 13, 2021

Evolution

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Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
December 4, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, ambiguous genitals, babies, biological sexes, boys, brains, chromosomes, Colin Wright, females, feminists, gametes, genitalia, girls, human behavior, intersex people, Jerry Coyne, John Money, Leonard Sax, males, ova, Simone de Beauvoir, sperm, surgery, transgenderism, Transgenderism Series}

Is It a Boy or a Girl?

_{Jonathan Wells
December 4, 2020

Medicine

6}

Parents with a new baby are almost always asked, “Is it a boy or a girl?” And the answer is almost always one or the other. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 30, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Aldous Huxley, babies, biotech, Brave New World, Center for Bioethics and Culture, China, dehumanization, Dubai, embryos, eugenics, FDA, gametes, genetic engineering, germline, gestational carriers, He Jiankui, IVF, Jennifer Lahl, Politicians, procreation, regulation, Stanford University, William Hurlbut}

Don’t Let Profiteers Control Human Genetic Engineering

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 30, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine, Technology

4}

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dire warning. But we aren’t paying heed. Read More ›

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Date
July 18, 2018

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __nedited, adaptability, adaptation, angiosperms, antidote, Austria, causal circularity, Charles Darwin, Douglas Axe, evolutionary genetics, flowering plants, gametes, Genetics (journal), inbreeding, Institute of Science and Technology, intelligent design, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, ova, pollen, theistic evolution, toxins, Undeniable (book)}

Three Ways that Plants Defy Darwin’s Mechanism

_{Science and Culture
July 18, 2018

Botany, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Plants have no brains and limited mobility, yet they have mechanisms to thrive in place. One mechanism involves the prevention of inbreeding. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 13, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __edited, asexual reproduction, chromatids, complementarity, foresight, gametes, meiosis, parasites, sexual reproduction}

Sex, the Queen of Problems in Evolutionary Biology

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 13, 2011

Evolution, Life Sciences, Reproductive Science

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The origin and subsequent maintenance of sex and recombination isn't easily explained by Darwinian evolution. Why is sex a success, despite all its disadvantages? Read More ›