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Human Germline and Heritable Genome Editing: The Global Policy Landscape

By Françoise Baylis, Marcy Darnovsky, Katie Hasson, and Timothy M. Krahn, The CRISPR Journal | 10.20.2020

Aggregated News

Abstract

Discussions and debates about the governance of human germline and heritable genome editing should be informed by a clear and accurate understanding of the global policy landscape. This policy survey of 106 countries yields significant new data. A large...

Policies

UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out

By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times | 10.26.2020

Aggregated News

In late 2018, UC Berkeley bioethics professor Osagie K. Obasogie received a campus email about a research fund available to faculty members in the School of Public Health. 

He was stunned by what he read.

The Genealogical Eugenic Institute Fund,...

Bioethics

CIRM May Be on the Verge of Winning

By Pete Shanks | 11.12.2020
Biopolitical Times

Proposition 14, the California ballot initiative that, if passed, would continue and increase public financing for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine...

Policies

Crispr Gene Editing Can Lead to Big Mistakes in Human Embryos

By Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.29.2020

Aggregated News

Scientists using the Crispr gene-editing technology in human embryos to try to repair a gene that causes hereditary blindness found it...

Human Genetic Modification

Biopolitical Times

On the Status of Women, Chimeras, and Eugenics in Today’s World

By Pete Shanks | 11.24.2020

The last couple of weeks have given us some remarkable stories – ludicrous, thought-provoking or both – from around the...

Genomics

CIRM May Be on the Verge of Winning

By Pete Shanks | 11.12.2020

Proposition 14, the California ballot initiative that, if passed, would continue and increase public financing for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine...

Policies

Some Recent and Forthcoming Books on Human Genome Editing

By Pete Shanks | 11.12.2020

“Another damned thick book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr. Gibbon?”
— The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume...

Human Genetic Modification

News

Facial recognition used to identify Lafayette Square protester accused of assault

By Justin Jouvenal, Spencer Hsu, The Washington Post | 11.22.2020

A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and rolling canisters spewing irritant gas into the retreating crowds on H Street NW, video shows.

Amid screams and smoke,...

Civil Society

What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In?

By Jessica Bennett, New York Times | 11.19.2020

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Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers being “called out” for changing her profile picture on Instagram in solidarity for … something. She can’t quite remember what for, only that an older...

Civil Society

Prince George’s will use DNA registries to solve cold cases through new DOJ grant

By Katie Mettler, Washington Post | 11.19.2020

Prince George’s County is one of 10 jurisdictions across the country that will receive a $470,000 grant from the Justice Department to reopen cold cases using forensic genetic genealogy — a new investigative technique that draws on privately curated DNA...

Policies

False Labor

By Lena Dunham, Harper's Magazine | 11.18.2020

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of chronic pain caused by endometriosis and its little-studied ravages, I had my uterus, my cervix, and one of my ovaries...

Assisted Reproduction

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