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When we talk about gene editing technology, we often talk about—but almost never deeply consider—the concept of designer babies. Consider this article in The New York Times, titled “Gene Editing for ‘Designer Babies’? Highly Unlikely, Scientists Say.”...

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Remember the human cloning controversies of the early 2000s? One reason they faded was that scientists were unable to clone non-human primates. Now that researchers have produced two cloned monkeys, we should brace ourselves for a rerun...

Biopolitical Times

Last January, CGS predicted that gene editing would be one of the biggest science stories of the year. This has...

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This commentary was originally published on the IJFAB Blog.

For more than a decade, Canadian regulation has explicitly countered...

Biopolitical Times

Last January, CGS predicted that gene editing would be one of the biggest science stories of the year. This has...

Abby Lippman, friend and colleague to the Center for Genetics and Society and myriad other social justice organizations, died on...

Personal DNA tests, marketed directly to consumers with promises of revealing health and ancestry information, were a much-recommended gift this...

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Remember the human cloning controversies of the early 2000s? One reason they faded was that scientists were unable to clone non-human primates. Now that researchers have produced two cloned monkeys, we should brace ourselves for a rerun...

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Last year will be remembered for many things, many of them not good. But here's at least one flicker of hope: 2017 may go down as the year gene therapy finally turned a corner. In late December, the ...

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Researchers say they have taken a step toward developing a blood test that would detect eight common cancers, possibly even before symptoms appear.

As they report Thursday in the journal Science, they're hoping their idea would eventually lead to a...

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“I want to democratize science,” says biohacker extraordinaire Josiah Zayner.

This is certainly a worthy-sounding sentiment. And it is central to the ethos of biohacking, a term that’s developed a bit of sprawl. Biohacking can mean non-profit community biology labs...

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Talking Biopolitics 2017-2018 with Shobita Parthasarathy and Tania Simoncelli
Talking Biopolitics 2017-2018 with Ben Hurlbut and Patricia Williams
Gene Editing and the Future of Reproductive Justice