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Perspectives on uncritical NYT coverage of cardiac mitochondrial transplant trial

July 11, 2018 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 12 Comments

One of the reasons I’m a scientist is that I find biology fascinating and admittedly novel biomedical science can really catch my eye, but more recently as a somewhat grizzled researcher, I’ve become increasingly skeptical about some “sexy” research and media coverage of it. A small red flag went up for me as I was …

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4 areas of debate on 1st human embryo genetic modification paper

April 27, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

Last week was a big one for the life sciences in that we saw the milestone of the first ever published paper reporting human embryo genetic modification (see here and here). It was one of those situations where we knew it was coming, but it was still a jolt. Not surprisingly this event sparked intense discussion …

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