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| Genetic and Prenatal Influences on Development | |
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| Genetic Influences | |
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| The Identity Dance | |
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| Psychology Today , March/April 2004 Identical twins are clones with the same genetic profiles | |
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| Life experience, therefore, must matter if identical twins develop unlike emotions, health problems, and personalities | |
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| This article reports scientific evidence that genes have the equivalent of molecular “switches” that can be turned on or off by prenatal and postnatal environmental factors. Several unlike identical twins are described | |
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| The Power to Divide | |
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| National Geographic , July 2005 The United States under Bush limits federal funding of research on stem cells | |
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| Some states (e.g., California) and several countries (e.g., Singapore, Korea, U.K.) are making progress in therapeutic cloning of cells needed by diabetes, heart attack patients, and others. Some people with regenerated cells are already thriving. Will ethicists allow this research to continue? Should they? | |
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| The Age of Genetic Technology Arrives | |
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| The American Spectator , November/December 2002 The 30,000 human genes have been mapped and biotech businesses are booming. Will genetic engineering result in every baby being born without any mental or physical disabilities? Will we eliminate tumors and infections, enhance immunity, and make disease extinct? How much more memory, or years of life, will we add? Will we be fulfilled or dehumanized? Leon Kass addresses these ethical issues | |
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| Brave New Babies | |
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| Newsweek , January 26, 2004 Reproductive technology has made it possible for parents to have their eggs and sperm united in a lab dish. After selecting the genetic characteristics they want, the appropriate embryo (or embryos) is implanted in the mother for gestation. This practice has raised some troubling questions. Claudia Kalb addresses these questions of morality and ethics | |
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| Prenatal Influences | |
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| Inside the Womb | |
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| Time , November 11, 2002 Embryonic cells, also known as stem cells, generate most of the human organ systems in the earliest weeks of prenatal development | |
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| Not only aberrant genes, but also health , stress , nutrition , and toxins (e.g., drugs) can alter the precision of stem cell transformations. Concerns for embryonic development are not yet, but should become, a political priority, argues Nash | |
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| The Mystery of Fetal Life: Secrets of the Womb | |
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| Current , September 2001 Environment affects prenatal development. This article reviews known dangers (e.g., alcohol and drug use, viral infections) and recently discovered endocrine disrupters (e.g., chemicals in our air, food, and water). The author gives advice on exercise, nutrition, and health maintenance to optimize the physical and cognitive status of the offspring | |
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| The Smallest Patients | |
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| Newsweek , October 3, 2005 The health of a fetus can now be safeguarded with surgery during pregnancy | |
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| Early detection and intervention have payoffs both for baby and for parents. A< | |