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7 Questionable Claims in Reporting on Gene Editing Human Embryos

By Katie Hasson | 09.06.2017
Biopolitical Times

On July 26, news broke that scientists led by Shoukrat Mitalipov used CRISPR to perform gene editing on human embryos—a first in the United States. Scientists in China had previously edited human embryos, but the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) researchers edited more embryos with greater accuracy than previous attempts.

Last week, prominent researchers raised doubts about the findings of this study. But this developing scientific controversy raises additional questions about the initial reporting of this research. The...

Media Coverage

"Scattered Seeds" makes the case for disclosure of sperm donors

By Gina Maranto, Guest Contributor | 08.30.2017
Biopolitical Times
Scattered Seeds: In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation, by Jacqueline Mroz, 253 pp. Seal Press, 2017. In 1681, the English poet John Dryden began his epic poem “Absalom and Achitophel,” a political satire, with an account of a monarch who...
Arts & Culture

We’re Failing Our Test Run for the Age of CRISPR

By David M. Perry, The Nation | 08.29.2017

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We’re on the cusp of being able to genetically shape our offspring, but without accurately informing would-be parents, genetic diversity

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Eugenics

On Embryos and Spin

By George Estreich, Guest Contributor | 08.01.2017
Biopolitical Times

Last Wednesday, the MIT Technology Review reported that a team of Oregon researchers had altered human embryos, using the genome-editing...

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Biopolitical Times

In Support of Canadian Feminist Voices

By Emily Galpern, Guest Contributor | 10.13.2017

In 2004, Canada passed the Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Act, establishing an important piece of national legislation on assisted...

Assisted Reproduction

One Small Step Toward Regulating Dubious Stem Cell Clinics

By Pete Shanks | 10.06.2017

California has enacted a law that begins to provide a framework for regulating the dozens of state stem cell clinics...

U.S. States

How Tabloids Use Kim Kardashian Rumors to Misrepresent Surrogacy

By Kayla Tolentino | 10.05.2017

Months after pop-culture superstar Kim Kardashian mentioned her interest in exploring surrogacy during the last season of Keeping Up with...

Arts & Culture

News

A Woman Went Blind After Stem Cells Were Injected in Her Eyes

By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 10.19.2017

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And she isn’t the only one.

Last year, a 77-year-old woman traveled to a clinic in Georgia to have stem cells injected in her eyes. She came in hope of a cure—or at least something that could help her macular...

Bioethics

Protecting Against AI’s Existential Threat

By Ilya Sutskever and Dario Amodei, Wall Street Journal | 10.18.2017

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How to avoid the nightmare scenario of artificial intelligence? According to researchers from Elon Musk’s OpenAI, the trick is teaching machines to keep our interests in mind

On July 8, 2017, an AI system built by our research company, OpenAI,...

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Bioethics Panels Open Door Slightly to Germline Gene Editing

By Jeff Lyon, JAMA | 10.18.2017

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As CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–Cas9) and other gene-editing technologies hasten the feasibility of effective somatic and germline genomic manipulation, an international panel of genetics groups has weighed in on some of the thorniest ethical and scientific implications...

Bioethics

What DNA Testing Companies’ Terrifying Privacy Policies Actually Mean

By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 10.18.2017

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You probably wouldn’t hand out your social security number without having a pretty good idea of how that information was going to be used, right? That would be dumb. It’s extremely sensitive information. And yet, the consumer genetic testing market ...

Bioethics

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