A recent article from Eric Olson’s group outlines the development of an important new tool that should catalyze the cardiovascular community’s ability to create new animal models containing genetically engineered genes and proteins specifically in the cardiomyocyte population with cardiomyocyte. Olson and colleagues used a cardiomyocyte-specific promoter to express a critical component of the C...

A recent article from Eric Olson’s group outlines the development of an important new tool that should catalyze the cardiovascular community’s ability to create new animal models containing genetically engineered genes and proteins specifically in the cardiomyocyte population with cardiomyocyte. Olson and colleagues used a cardiomyocyte-specific promoter to express a critical component of the C...

There is a long history of opposition to allowing parents to use biotechnology in order to select the traits of their children. Jurgen Habermas’s book, The Future of Human Nature, is an important addition to this literature. Habermas, like C.S. Lewis and Paul Ramsey before him, is concerned that children’s futures are fixed by parental choices and that genetic selection or modification treats c...

In the near future we may be able to manipulate human embryos through genetic intervention. Jürgen Habermas has argued against the development of technologies which could make such intervention possible. His argument has received widespread criticism among bioethicists. These critics argue that Habermas’s argument relies on implausible assumptions about human nature. Moreover, they challenge Ha...