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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

The Tangled Web of Presidential Politics, AI, Transhumanism and Eugenics

By Pete Shanks | 01.27.2024

Dean Phillips campaign event, 1/17/24; image by
Artaxerxes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Political rookies are rarely elected...

Society

Review: Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics

By Emma McDonald Kennedy | 01.18.2024

Risa Cromer’s Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics richly contextualizes embryo adoption programs within the growth and evolution...

U.S. Federal

Weaponizing Trivialities: The Engineered Ouster of Claudine Gay and its Link to Eugenics

By Pete Shanks | 01.16.2024

Claudine Gay at her Inauguration as Harvard President
Charlotte Hysen/Governor's Press Office (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

On January 2...

Bioethics

News

Amid post-Roe concerns, Democratic lawmakers introduce bill to protect access to IVF

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | 01.18.2024

Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at protecting access to infertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, amid growing concern that anti-abortion bills may threaten access in some states.

On Thursday, Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild...

Policies

Trump’s dangerous echoes of the eugenics movement

By Paul Moses, CNN | 01.16.2024

 

"Donald Trump Signs The Pledge" by Michael Vadon 
is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Last month, former President Donald Trump said immigrants arriving in the United States were “poisoning the blood of our country...

Eugenics

FDA widens approval of Vertex’s CRISPR medicine to treat beta thalassemia

By Ned Pagliarulo, BioPharma Dive | 01.16.2024

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ CRISPR-based medicine Casgevy for the inherited blood condition beta thalassemia, expanding its use six weeks after issuing a landmark clearance in sickle cell disease.

The agency’s decision makes Casgevy, which in...

Policies

Cloned rhesus monkey created to speed medical research

By Pallab Ghosh, BBC | 01.16.2024

"Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta mulatta), male, Gokarna"
by Charles J. Sharp is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
[The clone is a hybrid of M. mulatta and M. fascicularis]

Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus...

Animal Biotechnologies

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