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Genetic Justice from Start to Summit, the Center for Genetics and Society’s two-part virtual symposium on February 27 and 28, drew hundreds of registrants from 26 countries. Organized as a challenge to the upcoming Third International Gene Summit on Human Genome Editing, the symposium featured speakers from a range of social justice perspectives: disability rights, reproductive rights and justice, racial justice, environmentalism, and human rights. Video recordings and transcripts of both days of the symposium are now available on the...

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A controversial embryo engineering technique turns out not to work as planned. It is touted as a way to prevent the births of children with mitochondrial disease, and a few fertility clinics have been using it - without much evidence - to try to circumvent certain varieties of infertility. New information suggests that in the case of preventing mitochondrial disease, the procedure would...

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Hundreds of scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients, and others started gathering in London Monday for the Third International Summit on Human...

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The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) published on...

This week in London, some 400 people from around the world – including scientists, bioethicists, patients, journalists, civil society groups...

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Hundreds of scientists (and a few others) will be in London...

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In 2018, during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, Jiankui He shocked the world by announcing the birth of two children whose genomes he had edited using CRISPR technology. Following widespread condemnation and a criminal...

Chinese scientist Dr Jiankui He flouted the law and bioethics basics to create the world's first CRISPR gene edited babies. Now out of jail, he's on Twitter recruiting patients and raising funds for more trials, this time in adults not embryos. An...

Last Week in London, a small group of protestors braved it out in the rain in front of the Francis Crick Institute, where the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing was taking place. The sparse congregation, from the group ...

Victoria Gray was wandering through the British Museum in London last week when she spotted a small wooden cross hanging on the wall.

"It's nice seeing all the old artifacts, especially the cross," Gray said. "Religion is something that I...

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