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Following a Biopolitical Times tradition, we present some of our favorite blog posts of the past year.

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In a surprise announcement from a trial that was closed to the public, the court found Dr. He guilty of forging approval documents from ethics review boards.
Biopolitical Times
2019 was a year of challenging conversations, disturbing developments, and glimmers of hope for bioethicists, advocates, scientists, and concerned citizens who monitor misuses of human biotechnologies and the markets that surround them.
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If you’re hoping that your child will be a basketball star, well, good luck using polygenic scores and genetic screening to foretell that.

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2019 was a year of challenging conversations, disturbing developments, and glimmers of hope for bioethicists, advocates, scientists, and concerned citizens who monitor...

China has announced the sentencing of He Jiankui, the scientist whose attempts at heritable genome editing led to the births...

Following a Biopolitical Times tradition, we present some of our favorite blog posts of the past year, in chronological order....

News

Research carried out since He's stunning announcement has suggested that the genetic changes he made could cause more harm than good to the babies' health.
In a surprise announcement from a trial that was closed to the public, the court found Dr. He guilty of forging approval documents from ethics review boards.
Armadillo quadruplets are genetically identical, a reproductive strategy unique in the animal kingdom.
Two sisters, their mother and aunts showed a mutation on a BRCA gene and an elevated risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

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Bill McKibben and john a. powell discuss “Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, and Our Common Future.”
A Reading and Discussion with George Estreich
Controversial Gene Editing Physicist Missing