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CGS Statement on Russian Biologist's Plan to Produce Gene-Edited Babies

By CGS | 06.11.2019
Biopolitical Times

The journal Nature reported yesterday that a scientist in Russia claims he will attempt to produce gene-edited babies using CRISPR technology. Molecular biologist Denis Rebrikov’s stated plan is to disable the CCR5 gene in human embryos and implant them into HIV-positive mothers. Disabling the gene is thought to provide protection against some forms of HIV, but to increase susceptibility to some other infectious diseases.

If he proceeds, Rebrikov will be the second scientist known to engage in the widely condemned...

Technologies

We Don't Need More Reasons to Reject Heritable Genome Modification

By Katie Hasson, The Hill | 06.10.2019

Op-Ed

Late last year, scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of the world’s first genetically modified babies. He deployed a technology known as CRISPR to alter the genomes of two embryos that he used to initiate a pregnancy; their mother...

Technologies

Russian Biologist Plans More CRISPR-edited Babies

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 06.10.2019

Aggregated News

A Russian scientist says he is planning to produce gene-edited babies, an act that would make him only the second...

Technologies

The Wrong Way to Make Policy About Heritable Genome Modification

By Marcy Darnovsky, The Hill | 05.29.2019

Op-Ed

Last fall, when a Chinese scientist announced that he had created genetically modified twin babies, the world was stunned and...

Technologies

Biopolitical Times

No One Should Own Our Genes

By Pete Shanks | 06.11.2019

Six years ago, the question of who, if anyone, could patent a human gene was (we thought) settled by the...

Genomics

CGS Statement on Russian Biologist's Plan to Produce Gene-Edited Babies

By CGS | 06.11.2019

The journal Nature reported yesterday that a scientist in Russia claims he will attempt to produce gene-edited babies using CRISPR...

Technologies

What Rider? Why the June 4 House Appropriations Committee Decision Matters

By Adrienne van der Valk | 06.05.2019

You’ll be tempted to TL;DR this, but don’t. This is one of those moments you don’t want to look back...

Human Genetic Modification

News

Act Now on CRISPR Babies

By Editors, Nature | 06.11.2019

A worldwide debate is under way on how to regulate gene editing in human sperm, eggs or embryos.

A researcher steps forward and says he has plans to edit the genes of babies. He wants to alter a gene called ...

Technologies

Russian Biologist Plans More CRISPR-edited Babies

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 06.10.2019

A Russian scientist says he is planning to produce gene-edited babies, an act that would make him only the second person known to have done this. It would also fly in the face of the scientific consensus that such experiments...

Technologies

We Don't Need More Reasons to Reject Heritable Genome Modification

By Katie Hasson, The Hill | 06.10.2019

Late last year, scientist He Jiankui announced the birth of the world’s first genetically modified babies. He deployed a technology known as CRISPR to alter the genomes of two embryos that he used to initiate a pregnancy; their mother...

Technologies

CRISPR Regulation

By Marcy Darnovsky, ISSUES in Science and Technology | 06.05.2019

As the debate about heritable genome editing unfolds, divergent perspectives are coming more clearly into view. Those who see it as offering little or no benefit while posing unacceptable societal risks support either the currently prevailing policies that ban it...

Technologies

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