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Spotlighting Social Justice Before the Gene Editing Summit

By CGS Staff, Biopolitical Times | 03.02.2023
Biopolitical Times

Genetic Justice from Start to Summit, the Center for Genetics and Society’s two-part virtual symposium on February 27 and 28, drew hundreds of registrants from 26 countries. Organized as a challenge to the upcoming Third International Gene Summit on Human Genome Editing, the symposium featured speakers from a range of social justice perspectives: disability rights, reproductive rights and justice, racial justice, environmentalism, and human rights. Video recordings and transcripts of both days of the symposium are now available on the...

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On Safety in Engineering Embryos: Engage the Brakes

By Pete Shanks | 03.04.2023
Biopolitical Times

"Golden mitochondria" by National Institutes of Health
(NIH) is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

A controversial embryo engineering technique turns out not to work as planned. It is touted as a way to prevent the births of children with mitochondrial disease, and a few fertility clinics have been using it - without much evidence - to try to circumvent certain varieties of infertility. New information suggests that in the case of preventing mitochondrial disease, the procedure would...

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Experts weigh medical advances in gene-editing with ethical dilemmas

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.06.2023

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Hundreds of scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients, and others started gathering in London Monday for the Third International Summit on Human...

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ACMG: Do Not Use Polygenic Risk Scores for Embryo Selection

By Pete Shanks | 03.21.2023

Image courtesy National Human Genome Research Institute

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) published on...

Dispatch from the Gene Editing Summit

By Katie Hasson | 03.10.2023

This week in London, some 400 people from around the world – including scientists, bioethicists, patients, journalists, civil society groups...

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The UK Campaign to Legalize Germline Gene Editing

By Pete Shanks | 03.05.2023

HFEA logo & some post-its from the Citizens Jury

Hundreds of scientists (and a few others) will be in London...

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Human genome editing: ensuring responsible research

By Editorial, The Lancet | 03.18.2023

In 2018, during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, Jiankui He shocked the world by announcing the birth of two children whose genomes he had edited using CRISPR technology. Following widespread condemnation and a criminal...

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Out of jail, is the CRISPR-baby scandal scientist at it again?

By Natasha Mitchell, ABC (feat. CGS' Katie Hasson) | 03.17.2023

Chinese scientist Dr Jiankui He flouted the law and bioethics basics to create the world's first CRISPR gene edited babies. Now out of jail, he's on Twitter recruiting patients and raising funds for more trials, this time in adults not embryos. An...

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It’s Official: No More Crispr Babies—for Now

By Grace Browne, Wired [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 03.17.2023

Last Week in London, a small group of protestors braved it out in the rain in front of the Francis Crick Institute, where the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing was taking place. The sparse congregation, from the group ...

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Sickle cell patient's success with gene editing raises hopes and questions

By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.16.2023

Victoria Gray was wandering through the British Museum in London last week when she spotted a small wooden cross hanging on the wall.

"It's nice seeing all the old artifacts, especially the cross," Gray said. "Religion is something that I...

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