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Genetically modifying future children isn’t just wrong. It would harm all of us

By Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 07.17.2018

Op-Ed

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has taken what it clearly regards as a brave new step: it has openly endorsed the use of genome editing to engineer the traits of future children and generations. The council’s report, Genome editing...

Human Genetic Modification

Public and policy makers grow suspicious of genetic testing companies—for good reason

By Adam O'Regan | 07.10.2018
Biopolitical Times
The popularity of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing by companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com has skyrocketed. Meanwhile, so has concern about the privacy and uses of the genetic information being amassed. As controversies build, several state and federal initiatives are bringing to light...
Genomics

40 Years of IVF: What’s Been Overlooked?

By Center for Genetics and Society | 07.10.2018
Press Statement

The first baby born as a result of in vitro fertilization (IVF) celebrates her 40th birthday on July 25. This...

Assisted Reproduction

Using 23andMe to Reunite Families at the Border Comes With Serious Privacy Risks

By Tonya Riley, Mother Jones [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.22.2018

Aggregated News

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced an end to administration’s policy of separating families at the border. But the...

Genomics

Biopolitical Times

CIRM Faces Its Future

By Pete Shanks | 08.14.2018

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is running out of money. It is also running out of time to...

Technologies

UK’s Nuffield Council Releases Report on Human Genome Editing

By Katie Hasson | 08.02.2018

On July 17, the UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics released “Genome Editing and Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Issues...

Technologies

Genes for Success? Not Exactly

By Pete Shanks | 07.27.2018

Biopolitical Times used to have a regular feature called “Gene of the Week,” in which we skewered the...

Genomics

News

Why Are So Many Parents Picking Their Baby’s Sex?

By Rebecca Gale, Dame [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.14.2018

In our on-demand era of reproductive liberty and technology, a child’s sex isn’t always left up to chance. As more parents have the option of choosing the sex of their baby before getting pregnant, they’re walking headfirst into an ethical...

Technologies

DNA ancestry tests may look cheap. But your data is the price

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian | 08.10.2018

In 1884, at the International Health Exhibition in South Kensington, four million punters came to view the latest scientific marvels: drainage systems, flushing toilets and electrically illuminated fountains. There, the scientist Francis Galton set up the Anthropometric Laboratory, where...

Genomics

US scientist who edited human embryos with CRISPR responds to critics

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.08.2018

Facing criticism from fellow scientists, the researcher behind the world’s largest effort to edit human embryos with CRISPR is vowing to continue his efforts to develop what he calls “IVF gene therapy.”

Shoukhrat Mitalipov, of Oregon Health Sciences University in...

Technologies

The Evolving State of Human Germline Editing

By Katie Hasson, GeneWatch | 08.06.2018

A wave of controversy about reproductive gene editing gathered force in response to reports in 2015 of the first CRISPR experiments on human embryos. That news provoked two kinds of reactions: on the one hand, hyperbolic claims about "editing humanity"...

Technologies

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