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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

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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

Surrogacy: New Challenges to Law and Ethics

By Donna Dickenson | 12.08.2020

Everyone knows, or thinks they know, that complex and fast-moving new biotechnologies inevitably outstrip legal regulation and ethical scrutiny. Surrogacy—the...

Policies

Business Not As Usual: Surrogacy in the Time of COVID and Beyond

By Emily Galpern | 12.03.2020

Entering into surrogacy arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic is unwise and unsafe. It creates unnecessary risks and challenges for surrogates,...

Policies

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

News

Heritable Human Genome Editing? It May Never Be Safe

By Katie Hasson, Impact Ethics | 12.04.2020

The “CRISPR babies” announced in headlines around the world recently turned two years old, and we still know nothing about their health or wellbeing. Debates continue about whether the societal risks of heritable genome editing are too great to proceed,...

Human Genetic Modification

New York Lawmakers Want Limits on Collection of Kids’ DNA

By Rachel Rippetoe, The Imprint | 12.03.2020

In New York City, a middle-schooler pulled over by police could end up in a largely secretive DNA database simply for sipping a soda during questioning, whether or not they are ever implicated in a crime — a practice...

Policies

“Three-Parent IVF” Might Open the Door to Human Genome Editing

By Diana Bowman, Karinne Ludlow, Walter Johnson, Slate | 12.01.2020

On Oct. 19, a team of researchers from Greece and Spain made a remarkable announcement: They had started six pregnancies using a new genetic technology, mitochondrial donation. This was not the first time the technology had been used, but it...

Assisted Reproduction

Continuing issues and debate concerning transnational commercial surrogacy during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

By Yuri Hibino, Sonia Allan, and Damian Adams, BioNews | 11.30.2020

The regulation of surrogacy varies around the world. Most countries that have laws, prohibit all forms of surrogacy, while several permit altruistic arrangements. A small number permit commercial surrogacy arrangements, and accept commissioning couples, or singles from nations where prohibitions...

Assisted Reproduction

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