Hank Greely
I'm a Stanford law prof. I work on ethical, legal, and social issues arising from biosciences. I had a book come out last May: The End of Sex. (Don't worry)
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How big is the fertility services sector?
The fertility sector is large, and growing. To investors, reproductive vulnerabilities are growth opportunities. Sometimes when I'm bored, I find myself Googling things like "value of global fertility services market 2019." The estimates that come...
Extreme winter leads to an Arctic reproductive collapse
Unprecedented snowfall stymied breeding for birds and other creatures in northern Greenland in 2018.
Most state Medicaid programs still restrict access to hepatitis C medicines
Most state Medicaid programs deny hepatitis C treatments to beneficiaries, although more states are gradually easing restrictions, a new analysis says.
Surprising study shows reduced neuronal activity extends life
The discovery was so surprising that it’s taken two years to be published because of how much additional data the scientists reviewing the study requested.
Andrew McAfee Bets on More from Less
Our next Seminar speaker, Andrew McAfee, has offered a group of 14 predictions on Long Bets . . . Read More
The $102B club: The top 15 R&D spenders in the global biopharma business -- 2019 edition
Roche: The pharma giant delivered the blockbusters it had to have, here's the second wave AbbVie: A Phase III derailment costs AbbVie, but a big buyout and recent successes at the FDA help salve the wound Merck: Can a single drug be too successful?...
Faced With a Drug Shortfall, Doctors Scramble to Treat Children With Cancer
A critical chemotherapy medication is in short supply, and physicians say there is no appropriate substitute.
If I Went to Law School, According to My Mom
Criminals would immediately admit they’re guilty after seeing what a well behaved young man I am.
‘Unprecedented’ analysis underlines past failures to study African genomes
In a new study, researchers sequenced the genomes of 426 people from 13 African countries and 50 ethnolinguistic groups from across the continent.
California’s deliberate blackouts were outrageous and harmful. They’re going to happen again.
The many causes and grim tidings of the state’s latest energy crisis.
Elizabeth Holmes Is a Visionary, and We Need More Like Her | RealClearMarkets
It is a fact that man cant fly. The Washington Post concluded the latter in an editorial published around the beginning of the 20th century. Few disagreed with the Post. Indeed, in his...
Designer babies aren’t futuristic. They’re already here.
Are we designing inequality into our genes?
Was the Human Genome Project a dud?
The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, was hailed as a scientific Second Coming. It was said that the sequencing of the genome...
Fire, Floods and Power Outages: Our Climate Future Has Arrived
The most urgent imperative now is to turn our fear and frustration into votes.
Deutsche Bank may have destroyed copies of Trump's tax returns, cleansed servers: Report
The bank told a federal appeals court that it no longer holds records of President Donald Trump's tax returns.
Uganda plans bill imposing death penalty for gay sex
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a ...
GenePlaza | Your genetic print
Make sense of your DNA at the speed of science
How PG&E’s power shutdown threatened a NASA mission
“Sometimes you only get a box of band aids and rubberbands. That was the case here.”
Media alert: New articles on the ethics of genome editing published in The CRISPR Journal
The CRISPR Journal announces the publication of its October 2019 Special Issue on The Ethics of Human Genome Editing.