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Civil society calls for “International Summit on Human Genome Editing” to condemn gene-edited baby claims and experiments

By Center for Genetics and Society; Human Genetics Alert | 11.29.2018
Press Statement

In a statement released today, more than 100 civil society organizations, public interest advocates, scholars, health practitioners, scientists, and others call on the organizers of the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing to clearly condemn the actions of researcher...

Human Genetic Modification

Gene-edited babies: no one has the moral warrant to go it alone

By Marcy Darnovsky and Katie Hasson, The Guardian | 11.27.2018

Op-Ed

The fierce global controversy over whether to alter the genes of future children and generations just got fiercer. On the eve of a high-profile scientific meeting in Hong Kong on human gene editing, the Chinese researcher and biotech entrepreneur He...

Technologies

The Chinese gene-editing experiment was an outrage. The scientific community shares blame.

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff and Krishanu Saha, The Washington Post | 11.29.2018

Aggregated News

This is the experiment that was not supposed to happen.
Technologies

Claim of Genetically Modified Babies: If true, a grave abuse of human rights

By Center for Genetics and Society | 11.26.2018
Press Statement

Chinese scientist Jiankui He has announced the birth of twin girls whose DNA he claims to have altered using the...

Human Genetic Modification

Biopolitical Times

The Scandal and the Summit: Reactions to the Announcement of Gene-Edited Babies

By Pete Shanks | 12.07.2018

The Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing was held in Hong Kong on November 27–29. It was the sequel...

A Public View Into "A Private Life"

By Ayesha Chaterjee, Pop A.R.T. Guest Columnist | 12.05.2018

Private Life, the latest offering from Netflix, peels back the layers on the human quest for genetically related children....

Technologies

Risks Versus Ratings: How Will Michelle’s Memoir Reframe Conversations Around Infertility?

By Ayesha Chatterjee, Pop A.R.T. Guest Columnist | 11.16.2018

In her new memoir, Becoming, Michelle Obama makes a brave choice: she reveals her experience of a miscarriage and...

Assisted Reproduction

News

How to respond to CRISPR babies

By Editorial, Nature | 12.05.2018

People like to say that science is self-correcting. Events in China last week pose a serious challenge to that reassuring platitude. How do researchers respond to the failure of medical ethics, collective responsibility and professional standards that saw an immature...

Human Genetic Modification

[Video] Controversial Gene Editing Physicist Missing

By Elizabeth Cook (reporting), KPIX 5 CBS SF Bay Area (with CGS' Marcy Darnovsky) | 12.04.2018

(KPIX 5) – A Chinese scientist with Bay Area ties is reportedly missing, just days after unveiling a controversial genetic experiment.

Last week, scientist He Jiankui sparked a flurry of debate over DNA editing after claiming to use CRISPR gene...

Technologies

We need a temporary moratorium on using gene editing to create babies

By Paul Knoepfler, STAT | 12.03.2018

On a cold, drizzly night almost three years ago, I stood inside the nearly deserted Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., I was in town to attend the first International Summit on Human Gene Editing organized by the National Academy of...

Technologies

Screening the human future: YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered children

By George Estreich, The Conversation | 12.03.2018

On Sunday, Nov. 25, the scientist He Jiankui claimed the birth of the world’s first genetically engineered children: twins, created by IVF, their DNA altered at fertilization. Changes like these, because they’re inheritable – “editing the germline” – are widely...

Technologies

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