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NEWS ABOUT: eugenics

eugenics stories: 4 news summaries

Monkeys Pass
Altered Traits
to Offspring

Genetic breakthrough
will aid disease study,
but troubles some

May 27, 09 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Japanese scientists have produced the first genetically modified monkeys that can pass on their new traits to offspring, a research breakthrough mired in ethical quandaries. The technique is meant to be used to infect monkeys with diseases like Parkinson’s and then test treatments on them, but could eventually be... More »

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ethics • genetics • disease • animal rights • monkey • eugenics • lab rat • scientific breakthroughs • gene mutation

Amid Outcry, Doc Backs Off Designer Babies

Clinic will only screen embryos for disease, genetic disorders

Mar 4, 09 9:40 AM CST
(Newser) - After backlash from doctors, ethicists, and the public, a fertility clinic that had promised parents the option to choose certain traits for their new babies has changed its claim slightly. “We’re going to limit it to people with genetic diseases because we just cannot keep up with what’... More »

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medical breakthrough • fertility • genetics • designer baby • hair color • genes • eugenics

 Nazi Doc Linked to 
 Brazil Twin Record 

Historian believes Mengele continued quest to create master race

Jan 22, 09 5:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Nazi "Angel of Death" Dr. Josef Mengele may have continued his mission to create a master race after World War II in a small Brazilian town, the Daily Telegraph reports. A historian probing the sadistic Auschwitz doctor's post-war life in Latin America has linked him to the mysteriously high... More »

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twins • Brazil • doctor • Nazi • Auschwitz • eugenics

Dog Breeders Deploy DNA Tests

Genetic screening enables breeders to design dogs to suit their needs

Jun 12, 07 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the first map of a dog genome recently completed, scientists are hot on the trail of  genes for individual canine traits from coat color to cocking their heads in a cutesy way—and dog breeders are right behind them. Without any of the inhibitions attached to eugenics in humans,... More »

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genetics • breeding • genetic screening • genome • eugenics • dog

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