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Setting Aside Social Concerns and Public Participation, Scientific Committee Maps a Pathway to Heritable Human Genome Editing

By Center for Genetics and Society | 09.03.2020
Press Statement

A report released today by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Medicine and the U.K. Royal Society lays out a road map to clinical uses of heritable genome editing – that is, altering the genes and traits of future...

Human Genetic Modification

Bioengineered Gametes: Techno-Liberation or Techno-Trap?

By Marcy Darnovsky, Biopolitical Times | 08.26.2020
Biopolitical Times
Writing in the pages of The New York Times, Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar argues that a coming technological breakthrough – in vitro gametogenesis, or gametes manufactured from ordinary body cells – will herald a “revolution” that will “dismantle completely the reproductive structure of heterosexuality.”
Assisted Reproduction

Forum: Risks and rewards of gene editing

By Marcy Darnovsky, Issues in Science and Technology | 07.31.2020

Op-Ed

In this interview as in past public comments, Jennifer Doudna opens the door to using the CRISPR platform she helped...

Genetic Selection

Our Commitments to Social Justice and Anti-Racist Work

By Center for Genetics and Society | 06.06.2020
Biopolitical Times
We are in a moment of extreme challenge for each of us and for our country's future – yet again....
Bioethics

Biopolitical Times

Genome-Edited Babies: The Latest Report and Reactions to It

By Pete Shanks | 09.09.2020

On September 3rd, Heritable Human Genome Editing was published. This Report was the work of a multinational Commission organized...

Human Genetic Modification

Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and those with disabilities – and lasted into the 21st century

By Alexandra Minna Stern | 09.09.2020

In August 1964, the North Carolina Eugenics Board met to decide if a 20-year-old Black woman should be sterilized. Because...

Society

Bioengineered Gametes: Techno-Liberation or Techno-Trap?

By Marcy Darnovsky, Biopolitical Times | 08.26.2020

Writing in the pages of The New York Times, Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar argues that a coming technological...

Assisted Reproduction

News

PD Editorial: No on 14: It’s time for stem cell agency to stand on its own

By The Editorial Board, The Press Democrat | 09.09.2020

In 2004, California voters agreed to borrow $3 billion to bankroll a stem-cell research program dedicated to seeking cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s and other debilitating diseases.

TV ads featured Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson’s, and the late Christopher Reeve,...

Policies

Heritable human genome editing: the National Academies/Royal Society report

By Peter Mills, Nuffield Council on Bioethics | 09.08.2020

The Consensus Study Report of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing convened by the US National Academies of Medicine and Sciences and the UK’s Royal Society was published on 3 September.

Heritable human genome...

Human Genetic Modification

Probe Finds Orig3n Covid Test Put Nursing-Home Patients at Risk

By Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 09.08.2020

Poor laboratory practices at a Boston company that performed Covid-19 tests for dozens of nursing homes in Massachusetts put patients at risk of harm, state public-health officials said.

On Friday, Bloomberg News reported that the company, Orig3n Inc., was...

Society

$5.5 Billion California Stem Cell Campaign Intensifies, Voting Begins in One Month

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Project | 09.08.2020
California's 21 million voters soon will be receiving mail that tells them a $5.5 billion stem cell ballot measure is "outrageous," unaffordable and will perpetuate long-standing problems with the state's stem cell research program.
Policies

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