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Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, Our Common Future

By CGS Staff | 11.13.2019
Biopolitical Times
The Center for Genetics and Society, the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, and the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley recently hosted a lively and thought-provoking conversation between john a. powell and Bill McKibben about heritable genetic modification, climate change, and how the two issues are connected.
Human Genetic Modification

NIH Director Backs Moratorium for Heritable Genome Editing

By Kevin Davies, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 11.08.2019

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Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has reaffirmed his support for a moratorium on heritable genome editing.
Human Genetic Modification

The World's First Gattaca Baby Tests Are Finally Here

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.08.2019

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A new DNA test claims to let prospective parents weed out IVF embryos with a high risk of disease or low intelligence. It will also warn clients about any embryo predicted to become a person who is among the shortest 2 percent of the population.
Assisted Reproduction

Controversial ‘Gay Gene’ App Provokes Fears of a Genetic Wild West

By Emily Maxmen, Nature | 10.29.2019

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Scientists and genetic counselors say that unregulated tools like the "How Gay Are You?" app can cause anxiety, unnecessary medical expenses, stigmatization and worse.
Genomics

Biopolitical Times

Book Review: Altered Inheritance—CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing

By Gina Maranto, Guest Contributor | 11.15.2019

Those who have read academic papers by Canadian philosopher Françoise Baylis — say on social egg freezing, or dementia and...

Human Genetic Modification

Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, Our Common Future

By CGS Staff | 11.13.2019

On October 18, 2019, the Center for Genetics and Society, the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, and...

Human Genetic Modification

Another $5.5 Billion for the California Stem Cell Agency?

By Pete Shanks | 11.04.2019

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is essentially broke. In 2004, Proposition 71 set it up with $3...

Stem Cells

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Consumer DNA Testing May Be the Biggest Health Scam of the Decade

By Ed Cara | 11.20.2019
At the start of this decade, the federal government called out consumer DNA testing as a burgeoning scam industry. Little did we know how it would explode in popularity.
Genomics

Human Germline Editing Needs One Message

By Nature Editorial Board, Nature | 11.20.2019
Science academies and the World Health Organization must act in unison. When the two groups report next year, they must speak with one voice and have more inclusive representation.
Human Genetic Modification

A New Treatment Promises to Make Little People Taller. Is it an Insult to ‘Dwarf Pride’?

By Damian Garde, STAT | 11.18.2019
Families, doctors, and a pharmaceutical company are all dealing with a philosophically fraught question: Is it ethical to make a little person taller?
Biotech & Pharma

Wiping Out the Daughters: Burkina Faso's Controversial Mosquito Experiment

By Hidde Boersma and Joost Bastmeijer, The Guardian | 11.18.2019
A radical experiment to genetically modify a strain of mosquito in order to stop them breeding malaria-carrying daughters is one of the latest efforts to tackle the deadly scourge of malaria.
Animal Biotechnologies

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Bill McKibben and john a. powell discuss “Climate Crisis, Designer Babies, and Our Common Future.”
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