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Reproductive gene editing imperils universal human rights

By Marcy Darnovsky, Leah Lowthorp and Katie Hasson, OpenGlobalRights | 02.15.2018

Op-Ed

What do recent advances in molecular genetics have to do with human rights? Quite a lot, it turns out. And key human rights documents have recognized this for some time.

Over the past few years, new “gene editing” tools that...

Human Rights

Personal Genomics Meets Blockchain

By Pete Shanks | 02.27.2018
Biopolitical Times

The launch of a genomics company with a difference was announced earlier this month. The individual customers who sign up to have their genomes marketed by Nebula Genomics will own their own data, keep it private and rent it to researchers and drug companies, fully anonymized. At least that’s the idea. The company aims to combine state-of-the-art genome sequencing with blockchain technology, the power behind the hugely hyped “digital currency” Bitcoin.

This approach has some practical problems, discussed below,...

Biotech & Pharma

Dog Cloning Headlines — Again

By Pete Shanks | 03.01.2018
Biopolitical Times

Editors seem convinced that dog cloning is a perennial hot topic that readers are just going to love. In fact,...

Animal Biotechnologies

First monkeys, and then us? Human cloning must stay off limits

By Marcy Darnovsky, New Scientist | 01.24.2018

Op-Ed

Remember the human cloning controversies of the early 2000s? One reason they faded was that scientists were unable to...

Animal Biotechnologies

Biopolitical Times

Women’s bodies, women’s identities, and the next chapter for Our Bodies Ourselves

By Gina Maranto, guest contributor, and Marcy Darnovsky | 04.20.2018

To contemplate the news that Our Bodies, Ourselves will cease updating its print and online information is to contemplate the...

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

“Race” and “IQ” Yet Again

By Pete Shanks | 04.13.2018

David Reich, a professor of genetics at Harvard, is the author of a new best-selling book, Who We Are...

Racial Justice

Is 23andMe in Trouble? Should They Be?

By Pete Shanks | 04.13.2018

The direct-to-consumer (DTC) gene testing company 23andMe seems to be in a strange position. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

Genetic Selection

News

Bioethics committee reviewing stand on genetic modification for mitochondrial disorders

By Jalelah Abu Baker, Channel News Asia | 04.19.2018

Aggregated News

SINGAPORE: The Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) is reviewing its current stand against genetic modification with regards to genetic disorders passed on to children by their mothers. 

The committee, set up by the Government to deal with issues arising from biomedical...

Other Countries

Framed for Murder By His Own DNA

By Katie Worth, Frontline | 04.19.2018

Aggregated News

When the DNA results came back, even Lukis Anderson thought he might have committed the murder.

“I drink a lot,” he remembers telling public defender Kelley Kulick as they sat in a plain interview room at the Santa Clara County,...

Genomics

Too Many Men

By Jasu Hu, The Washington Post | 04.18.2018

Aggregated News

Nothing like this has happened in human history. A combination of cultural preferences, government decree and modern medical technology in the world’s two largest countries has created a gender imbalance on a continental scale. Men outnumber women by 70 million...

Public Opinion

Gene Therapy For Inherited Blood Disorder Reduced Transfusions

By Rob Stein, NPR | 04.18.2018

Aggregated News

Gene therapy is showing promise for treating one of the most common genetic disorders.

Results of a study published Wednesday show that 15 of 22 patients with beta-thalassemia who got gene therapy were able to stop or sharply reduce the...

Genomics

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