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Proposed Moratorium on Heritable Genome Editing is a Welcome First Step

By CGS | 03.13.2019
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Scientists and ethicists from seven countries have issued an urgent call for a strict global moratorium on heritable genome editing. Writing in the March 14 issue of Nature, Drs. Lander, Baylis, Zhang, Charpentier, Berg, and others make a clear...

Human Genetic Modification

Adopt a moratorium on heritable genome editing

By Eric Lander, Françoise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg et al., Nature | 03.13.2019

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We call for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing — that is, changing heritable DNA (in sperm, eggs or embryos) to make genetically modified children.
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A Step in the Right Direction—But We Can’t Stop Here

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An international group of distinguished figures, including some of the scientists credited with discovering CRISPR, has published a commentary in...

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Are CRISPR Babies Healthy? Enhanced? Speculation Takes a Disturbing Turn

By Katie Hasson | 03.08.2019
Biopolitical Times

In the months since He Jiankui first announced the birth of gene-edited twins, there’s been a steady stream of revelations...

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Biopolitical Times

One Week Later: Reactions to the Proposed Moratorium on Human Germline Editing

By Katie Hasson | 03.20.2019

Has a commentary in Nature shifted the landscape of the debate about editing the genomes of future children? Or will...

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Moratorium News Roundup: What Got Reported? What Didn't?

By Pete Shanks | 03.20.2019

Nature published a commentary on March 13th with the forthright title “Adopt a moratorium on heritable genome editing.”

It was...

Technologies

Would-be Parents as Prey

By Kimberly Mutcherson, Pop A.R.T. Guest Columnist | 03.11.2019

A perk of being a scholar focused on reproductive technology is that I can justify watching terrible movies as research....

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Scientists Call for a Moratorium on Editing Inherited Genes

By Karen Weintraub, Scientific American [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2019

A group of 18 prominent scientists—including some who helped develop CRISPR–Cas9, the current leading tool for gene editing—issued a call Wednesday for an international moratorium on gene edits to eggs, sperm or embryos, and for establishing a process to discuss...

Technologies

Call For Global Moratorium On Creating Gene-Edited Babies

By Rob Stein , National Public Radio [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.13.2019

A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited babies into the world.

"We call for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing — that...

Technologies

Adopt a moratorium on heritable genome editing

By Eric Lander, Françoise Baylis, Feng Zhang, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Berg et al., Nature | 03.13.2019
We call for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing — that is, changing heritable DNA (in sperm, eggs or embryos) to make genetically modified children.
Technologies

Does the rhetoric of consumer genetics aim to eliminate disability without mentioning it?

By George J. Annas, Science | 03.10.2019

In 2011, poet and writer George Estreich wrote about the impact of biotechnology on family life in his first book, The Shape of the Eye. The memoir centers on how his family’s life was changed, and enriched, by the...

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