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CIRM Faces Its Future

By Pete Shanks | 08.14.2018
Biopolitical Times

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is running out of money. It is also running out of time to prove that California’s $6 billion dollar investment in the agency was worthwhile. (Half of that money was for interest.) Current estimates are that the last grants funded by 2004’s Proposition 71 will be made in 2019.

What next? CIRM won’t immediately fold in the fourth quarter of next year; the administrative budget will run through at least 2020. But...

Technologies

Genetically modifying future children isn’t just wrong. It would harm all of us

By Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 07.17.2018

Op-Ed

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has taken what it clearly regards as a brave new step: it has openly endorsed the use of genome editing to engineer the traits of future children and generations. The council’s report, Genome editing...

Human Genetic Modification

The Evolving State of Human Germline Editing

By Katie Hasson, GeneWatch | 08.06.2018

Op-Ed

A wave of controversy about reproductive gene editing gathered force in response to reports in 2015 of the first CRISPR...

Technologies

Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics

By Daniel Bojar, The Biologist [review of the book edited by CGS' Osagie K Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.06.2018

Aggregated News

The dramatic pace of scientific discoveries in recent decades has not only led to remarkable improvements in domains such as...

Society

Biopolitical Times

The Arts of Polling

By Pete Shanks | 10.10.2018

When considering whether and how to proceed with regulating human germline gene editing, everyone supports public engagement. The National Academies...

Human Genetic Modification

Students Create Online Resources about the US Eugenics Movement

By Audrey Kalman, Guest Contributor | 10.03.2018

Editor’s note: Audrey Kalman reports on the project she and her classmates completed last spring in Kate Wiley’s senior-year history...

Society

Is Silence Consent?

By Pete Shanks | 09.05.2018

On August 13, 2018, Molecular Therapy published a report (Open Access) that explicitly “suggests the efficiency and genetic...

Technologies

News

CRISPR cures inherited disorder in mice, paving way for genetic therapy before birth

By Sharon Begley, Stat | 10.08.2018

Nearly 40 years after surgeons first operated on fetuses to cure devastating abnormalities, researchers have taken the first step toward curing genetic disease before birth via genome editing: scientists reported on Monday that they used the genome editing technique CRISPR...

Technologies

Genetics research 'biased towards studying white Europeans'

By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 10.08.2018

People from minority ethnic backgrounds are set to lose out on medical benefits of genetics research due to an overwhelming bias towards studying white European populations, a leading scientist has warned.

Prof David Curtis, a geneticist and psychiatrist at University...

Genomics

Hidden Stories of Chinese Migration and Culture Found in Giant Genetic Study

By Steph Yin, The New York Times | 10.05.2018

Lamb stew, hearty and fragrant, cooked until meat falls off the bone and served alongside thick, chewy noodles — this is the type of food that cuts through northern China’s winter chill.

Further south, warmer climates support more crops. Fresh,...

Technologies

Viruses Spread by Insects to Crops Sound Scary. The Military Calls It Food Security.

By Emily Baumgaertner | 10.04.2018

Within the Defense Department, one agency’s recent project sounds futuristic: millions of insects carrying viruses descend upon crops and then genetically modify them to withstand droughts, floods and foreign attacks, ensuring a permanently secure food supply.

But in a warning...

Technologies

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