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Scientists Disagree About the Ethics and Governance of Human Germline Editing

By Françoise Baylis and Marcy Darnovsky, The Hastings Center | 01.17.2019

Op-Ed

Despite the appearance of agreement, scientists are not of the same mind about the ethics and governance of human germline editing. A careful review of public comments and published commentaries in top-tier science journals reveals marked differences in perspective. These...

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Human genome editing: ask whether, not how

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Nature | 01.02.2019

Aggregated News

Leaders in the scientific community are urgently seeking to set international standards for producing genetically modified humans. They are reacting to November’s announcement by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who claims that twin girls have been born carrying gene-editing changes He...

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Gene-edited babies: no one has the moral warrant to go it alone

By Katie Hasson and Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 11.27.2018

Op-Ed

The fierce global controversy over whether to alter the genes of future children and generations just got fiercer. On the...

Technologies

Biopolitical News of 2018

By Pete Shanks | 01.06.2019
Biopolitical Times

The biggest biopolitical news of the year was also the most significant, as is not always the case. Despite the...

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Biopolitical Times

The Bitcoin Baby Project

By Pete Shanks | 02.08.2019

After the heritable human gene editing headlines of late 2018, and considering that the stakes include the future of human...

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Recent Human Germline Editing News

By Pete Shanks | 02.07.2019

Last year’s heritable human gene editing scandal continues to reverberate. He Jiankui remains under investigation in China, where authorities have...

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Direct-to-Consumer and Forensic DNA Tests

By Pete Shanks | 02.07.2019

Family Tree DNA is now working with the FBI to “help law enforcement agencies solve violent crimes faster than...

News

Jerry Westrom Threw Away a Napkin Last Month. It Was Used to Charge Him in a 1993 Murder.

By Sarah Mervosh, The New York Times | 02.17.2019

A Minnesota man was eating a hot dog at a hockey game when, the authorities said, he wiped his mouth with a napkin and tossed the remains in the trash.

It was the moment cold-case investigators had been waiting for....

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We can edit the human genome, but should we?

By Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International | 02.13.2019

CRISPR is a recent technological breakthrough in simplifying gene editing,

It’s potential is enormous and at the same time it raises great concerns. Those concerns exploded when a Chinese scientist edited the genetic sequence of an embryo (germline) to create twin...

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More than 26 million people have taken an at-home ancestry test

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 02.11.2019

As many people purchased consumer DNA tests in 2018 as in all previous years combined, MIT Technology Review has found.

Surging public interest in ancestry and health—propelled by heavy TV and online marketing—was behind a record year for sales of...

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The NYPD's new DNA dragnet: The department is collecting and storing genetic information, with virtually no rules to curb their use

By Allison Lewis, Daily News | 02.08.2019

If you think clandestine DNA dragnets and secret databases are things of science fiction, I have some upsetting news.

From the same law enforcement playbook that brought you stop-and-frisk comes the latest form of racial profiling and policing: the knock-and-spit....

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