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The Push to Change the 14-Day Rule

By Pete Shanks | 03.10.2021
Biopolitical Times

In recent weeks, at least four publications (1, 2, 3, 4) have urged a change to the “14-day rule” that represents a widely accepted limit on in vitro research involving the cultivation of human embryos. Some call for changing the limit to 28 days, another suggests “increments of 2 or 3 days,” up to at least 18 days. The Hastings Center recently issued a Report on Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies, which focuses...

Assisted Reproduction

How the Los Angeles Times shilled for the racist eugenics movement

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Los Angeles Times | 02.28.2021

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Last month, Caltech announced that the names of six men with historical ties to the university would be removed from all“campus buildings, assets, and honors.”This unnaming came as the institution renounced its historical connections to the Human Betterment...

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The Dark Side of CRISPR

By Sandy Sufian and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Scientific American | 02.16.2021

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Americans have celebrated the fact that the Biden administration is embracing science and returning the country to evidence-based policymaking. We...

Human Genetic Modification

Heritable Human Genome Editing: Political Implications and Opportunities for Leadership

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To: The Biden-Harris Administration

From: Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society[1]

December 2020...

Biopolitical Times

Review: The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 04.05.2021

It’s not for nothing that Time, Inc. developed its formula for telling stories—catchy lede, billboard that tells 'em what you’re...

Society

Things We Are (Nearly, Perhaps) Able to Do with Human Embryos

By Pete Shanks | 03.23.2021

At least five separate studies involving human embryo research are raising fresh versions of old questions about science, ethics and...

Assisted Reproduction

Dominic Cummings, Stephen Hsu and Eugenics in the House

By Pete Shanks | 03.20.2021

Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former brain (he was forced out last November), claims not to know what eugenics is. This...

News

Reparations for CA forced sterilization survivors: Support AB 1007

By Aminah Elster, The Daily Californian | 04.02.2021

Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on white supremacist eugenics laws and ableist conceptions of who was “unfit to reproduce,” people with disabilities and women of color...

Civil Society

FDA approves CRISPR gene therapy trials for sickle cell disease

By Catherine Hsu, The Daily Californian | 04.01.2021

CRISPR genome editing technology, which was developed at UC Berkeley, has been approved for clinical trials to correct gene mutations responsible for sickle cell disease.

Sickle cell disease has been an “early target” for gene therapy because it is caused...

Genetic Selection

Your Face Is Not Your Own

By Kashmir Hill, The New York Times | 03.18.2021

Photo by Dan Nelson on Unsplash

In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images. Found by Yahoo in a Syrian user’s account, the photos seemed to document the sexual abuse of...

U.S. Federal

Criminal defendants still cite a ‘gene for violence.’ It doesn’t exist.

By Nita Farahany and Gene E. Robinson, The Washington Post | 03.18.2021

The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled last month on an extraordinarily important question: Should a criminal defendant be allowed to argue that a specific gene rendered him unable to control his violent behavior? The court concluded the answer was...

Genomics

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