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 in May 2016: The End of Sex. (Don't worry)
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Windows out of Africa: A 300,000-year chronology of climatically plausible human contact with Eurasia
Whilst an African origin for Anatomically Modern Humans is well established, the timings of their expansions into Eurasia are the subject to heated debate, due to the scarcity of fossils and the lack of suitably old ancient DNA. Here, we estimate...
Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the...
Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots
Researchers foresee myriad benefits for humanity, but also acknowledge ethical issues
Research on embryo-like structures struggles to win US government funding
Biologists say they need clearer guidelines on funding rules for this nascent field.
U.S. to begin screenings at three airports for cases of novel Chinese virus
Health officials will begin screening travelers arriving in the country from Wuhan, China, amid an ongoing outbreak of a novel viral infection.
Three US Airports Will Start Screening For A Dangerous Chinese Virus
Travelers from Wuhan, China will be screened for the new coronavirus — linked to two deaths overseas — at airports in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.
From discovery to delivery: public sector development of the r VSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine
Abstract. The discovery and development of the Ebola rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine challenge the common assumption that the research and development for innovative therap
Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete
‘A Frankenstein material’ teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.
The public science behind the 'Merck' Ebola vaccine
Canadian government funding and work by the country's National Microbiology Laboratory were instrumental in producing "Merck's" Ebola vaccine.
YEAR ROUND FLOWERING LUPINE - Green Fuse Botanicals, Inc.
Lupine plants comprising a homozygous recessive allele that produces a year round flowering characteristic (or year round flowering phenotype or trait) are disclosed. One embodiment relates to the see
Genetic testing, insurance discrimination and medical research: what the United States can learn from peer countries
Genetic testing, insurance discrimination and medical research: what the United States can learn from peer countries
2019 was Second-Warmest Year on Record, Federal Climate Scientists Say
The world experienced near-record global temperatures in 2019, capping what federal scientists said was the warmest decade in modern times.
This Strange Microbe May Mark One of Life’s Great Leaps
A organism living in ocean muck offers clues to the origins of the complex cells of all animals and plants.
In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture
Using novel imaging technologies, researchers produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction and abstinence remodel neural physiology and function in mice.
Life insurers should not get your DNA | Chris Sprowls
Life insurers should be banned from using genetic testing results to determine rates or coverage, the next House speaker writes.