Behavioral health refers to all behaviors that impact health. Mental health and substance use disorders are a very small, but attention getting subset of behavioral health, which includes behaviors related to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, HIV, even ebola, malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases.
I don't think I said that ... I predicted that human cloning would be with us in 10 years and I still believe that is the case, because there is a demand among a small number of people for this technology to have babies. It's being driven by the marketplace.
Genetic enhancement. Born in Kazakhstan when it was part of the former Soviet Union, Mitalipov has for years pushed scientific boundaries. In 2007, he unveiled the worldâs first cloned monkeys. Then, in 2013, he created human embryos through cloning, as a way of creating patient-specific stem cells. His teamâs move into embryo editing coincides with a report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in February that was widely seen as providing a green light for lab research on germline modification.