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Setting Aside Social Concerns and Public Participation, Scientific Committee Maps a Pathway to Heritable Human Genome Editing

By Center for Genetics and Society | 09.03.2020
Press Statement

A report released today by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Medicine and the U.K. Royal Society lays out a road map to clinical uses of heritable genome editing – that is, altering the genes and traits of future...

Human Genetic Modification

Bioengineered Gametes: Techno-Liberation or Techno-Trap?

By Marcy Darnovsky, Biopolitical Times | 08.26.2020
Biopolitical Times
Writing in the pages of The New York Times, Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar argues that a coming technological breakthrough – in vitro gametogenesis, or gametes manufactured from ordinary body cells – will herald a “revolution” that will “dismantle completely the reproductive structure of heterosexuality.”
Assisted Reproduction

Forum: Risks and rewards of gene editing

By Marcy Darnovsky, Issues in Science and Technology | 07.31.2020

Op-Ed

In this interview as in past public comments, Jennifer Doudna opens the door to using the CRISPR platform she helped...

Genetic Selection

Our Commitments to Social Justice and Anti-Racist Work

By Center for Genetics and Society | 06.06.2020
Biopolitical Times
We are in a moment of extreme challenge for each of us and for our country's future – yet again....
Bioethics

Biopolitical Times

Now Online: Climate Crisis, Designer Babies and Pandemics

By CGS | 09.24.2020

In a wide-ranging conversation on September 22, a stellar panel grappled with an ambitious agenda announced by the event’s title:...

Human Genetic Modification

Another $5.5 Billion for the California Stem Cell Institute?

By Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 09.24.2020

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), established by a 2004 ballot initiative that allotted it $3 billion, has finally...

Policies

Genome-Edited Babies: The Latest Report and Reactions to It

By Pete Shanks | 09.09.2020

On September 3rd, Heritable Human Genome Editing was published. This Report was the work of a multinational Commission organized...

Human Genetic Modification

News

No on Prop. 14; no need to replicate California's disappointing stem cell experiment

By Editorial Board, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.24.2020

Like MySpace, the Martha Stewart prosecution and American democratic norms, spending gobs of state money on stem cell research might sound like an artifact of the Aughts. And yet 16 years after voters agreed to borrow $3 billion to explore...

U.S. States

‘I Have Been a Surrogate 3 Times, This Is What It's Like’

By Eloise Drane, Newsweek | 09.23.2020

I'm married with five children from a blended family with my current husband, and I've been a gestational surrogate three times. My journey to surrogacy was a very long one, and really began back in 1998.

That year, I was...

Stranded babies, sobbing parents: Pandemic splits surrogates from families

By Agence France-Presse, Japan Times | 09.22.2020

Photo by 东旭 王 on Unsplash

BEIJING – Cherry Lin wistfully strokes a one-piece baby outfit, fretting it may be too small for a son she is yet to meet — one of hundreds of Chinese mothers estranged from babies born...

Assisted Reproduction

The slippery slope of the human gene editing debate

By John Evans, Oxford University Press Blog | 09.22.2020

The ethical debate about what is now called “human gene editing” (HGE) began sixty years ago. At the time, eugenicist scientists wanted to use new knowledge about the structure of DNA to modify humans—to perfect the human species by making...

Society

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