The first GMO baby was born this year using the "3-parent IVF" method called “maternal spindle transfer”. If not for the Aderholt amendment to the 2015 omnibus spending bill, which prohibits the Food and Drug Administration from entertaining an

BioTalk19: Genetic Testing - Consumer/Patient Be Aware

Oct 17th, 2016 23m 23s

Whether you’re getting tested for legitimate health reasons or just to find out “who you are” and where you came from, you should be aware that once your DNA` leaves your body you have zero control over what happens to it.

BioTalk18: Self-Regulation Science Doesn't Work

Jul 29th, 2016 37m 13s

Scientists love to give themselves "ethical guidelines" -- only to "reevaluate" and revise those guidelines when they are no longer convenient.

BioTalk17: Human Genetic Modification and U.S. Public Policy

May 6th, 2016 29m 47s

Speaking with Dr. David Prentice about what, if anything, is being done to stem the tide of human genetic engineering in the United States -- and if there's *any* hope for tighter, more permanent restrictions in the future.

BioTalk16: Genetic Enhancements, A “Biological Arms Race” That No One Can Win

May 6th, 2016 32m 40s

Last year the UK became the first in the world to offer controversial ‘three-parent’ fertility treatments. This year they approved the use of CRISPR to edit genomes of human embryos. In the latest episode of BioTalk, we discuss how scientists

BioTalk15: Embryo Custody Wars -- People Not Property

May 6th, 2016 35m

Speaking with Jim Cole, General Counsel for Missouri Right to Life, about IVF "custody battles" and what's in the best interest of the embryonic children involved.

BioTalk13: Aborted Fetal Body Parts in Scientific Research

May 6th, 2016 12m 44s

Speaking with chemistry and physics instructor, Dr. Stacy Trasancos. Stacy reminds us that it really doesn’t take any undercover investigating to find proof that abortion providers have been supplying scientists with aborted fetal body parts —

BioTalk12: Medical Ethics and Transhumanism -- The World's First Head Transplant?

May 6th, 2016 32m 8s

The ethical considerations of the possible world's first head transplant and and other extremely invasive medical procedures, our tendency to treat mental diseases as physical diseases, recent comments from the Vatican on plastic surgery and h

BioTalk11: UK Approves GMO People

May 6th, 2016 23m 46s

British MPs voted to make the UK the first country in the world to offer controversial ‘three-parent’ fertility treatments.

BioTalk10: Biotalking with Dr. David Prentice

May 5th, 2016 19m 15s

At the National Right to Life Convention this summer, Chelsea caught up with Dr. David Prentice, Senior Fellow for Life Sciences at Family Research Council, and chatted with him a bit about the current status of the great “stem cell debate”, ho

BioTalk9: Transhumanism in Popular Culture

May 5th, 2016 21m 26s

In this episode we take a look at how transhumanism is portrayed in some modern movies and television shows. However its portrayed, for good or for ill, we should use these forms of entertainment as an opportunity to have a serious conversatio

BioTalk8: Genetic Modification -- Bad for Cows and Corn, but Okay for Humans

May 4th, 2016 24m 4s

Our society seems to have a split personality when it comes to genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

BioTalk7: IVF -- Is it Really Good for the Children?

May 4th, 2016 27m 7s

IVF advocates desperately want us to believe that biology is irrelevant when it comes to "family," but the testimonies of countless donor conceived children, prove otherwise.

BioTalk6: Good News About Down Syndrome

May 2nd, 2016 27m 49s

The modern search and destroy mission to wipe people withDownsyndrome off of the planet through eugenic abortion has takensomuch love and joy out of the world.In this episode, Rebecca Taylor and Chelsea Zimmerman"raiseawareness" about the good

BioTalk5: Human Cloning is Here

Mar 30th, 2016 24m 26s

Chelsea Zimmerman and Rebecca Taylor discuss recent advancements in human cloning.

BioTalk4: Biotechnology and the Catholic Church

Mar 30th, 2016 23m 23s

What does the Catholic Church have to say about biotechnology and is she really as backward thinking as most people believe she is?

BioTalk3 -- Lance Armstrong: Cheater or Transhumanism Pioneer?

Feb 16th, 2016 24m 48s

Should Lance Armstrong be celebrated as a "pioneer in human enhancement"? Rebecca Taylor and Chelsea Zimmerman discuss the transhumanist movement, which seems to be starting in the world of sports with performance enhancing drugs.

BioTalk Episode 2: Three Parent Embryos and the Brave New United States

Jan 29th, 2016 24m 22s

In October of last year, scientists in Oregon made embryos with genes from one man and two women: http://lacrossetribune.com/oregon-scientists-make--parent-embryos/article_d4035b9a-1e62-11e2-8218-0019bb2963f4.htmlRebecca and Chelsea discuss th