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Justice for Henrietta Lacks

By Isabelle Bartram, Guest Contributor | 11.14.2023
Biopolitical Times

Note: Originally published as “Gerechtigkeit für Henrietta Lacks” in the German publication nd; translated by the author.

Human cell lines are an instrumental part of basic biomedical research and necessary for the development of vaccines and drugs. Compared with ordinary cells in the body, cell lines in the laboratory can divide much more often, sometimes indefinitely; they are “immortalized,” either through artificial genetic changes in the laboratory or natural mutations in the development of tumors. Anyone who...

Biotech & Pharma

What If Men Could Make Their Own Egg Cells?

By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.27.2023

Aggregated News

The Japanese biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi said earlier this year that he believes it will be possible to create a human egg from skin cells within a decade. He and his colleagues have already turned skin cells from male mice into...

Assisted Reproduction

AI and Human Gene Editing

By Pete Shanks | 11.13.2023
Biopolitical Times

Coded Bias is on Netflix; the trailer is
also at The Algorithmic Justice League

A few weeks ago, Marc Andreessen...

Genetic Selection

Medical education must include the field’s Nazi past, expert panel urges

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 11.10.2023

Aggregated News

All health care students worldwide should learn the history of medicine during the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, according to...

Bioethics

Biopolitical Times

Justice for Henrietta Lacks

By Isabelle Bartram, Guest Contributor | 11.14.2023

Note: Originally published as “Gerechtigkeit für Henrietta Lacks” in the German publication nd; translated by the author...

Biotech & Pharma

AI and Human Gene Editing

By Pete Shanks | 11.13.2023

Coded Bias is on Netflix; the trailer is
also at The Algorithmic Justice League

A few weeks ago, Marc Andreessen...

Genetic Selection

AI, Biotech, and the Race to Control the Future

By Pete Shanks | 10.12.2023

Artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic biology, and gene editing are powerful technologies that are being developed with remarkable speed and are...

Policies

News

Food and farming business experts: Food Standards Agency consultation on "precision-bred" GMOs is misleading and flawed

By GMWatch Contributors, GMWatch | 11.21.2023

Open letter to UK's FSA is published

A group of experts representing business, farming, certification, academia, science and civil society have lodged a formal complaint against the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA), raising serious concerns about its public consultation process...

Genetic Selection

UK first to approve CRISPR treatment for diseases: what you need to know

By Carissa Wong, Nature | 11.16.2023

In a world first, the UK medicines regulator has approved a therapy that uses the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tool as a treatment. The decision marks another high point for a biotechnology that has been lauded as revolutionary in the decade since...

Human Genetic Modification

The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved

By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.16.2023

The first medical treatment that uses Crispr gene editing was authorized Thursday by the United Kingdom.

The one-time therapy, which will be sold under the brand name Casgevy, is for patients with sickle cell disease and a related blood disorder...

Human Genetic Modification

A Single Infusion of a Gene-Editing Treatment Lowered High Cholesterol

By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.14.2023

In a small initial test in people, researchers have shown that a single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment can reduce cholesterol, the fatty substance that clogs and hardens arteries over time.

The gene-editing treatment aims to permanently lower cholesterol...

Human Genetic Modification

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