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The Push to Change the 14-Day Rule

By Pete Shanks | 03.10.2021
Biopolitical Times

In recent weeks, at least four publications (1, 2, 3, 4) have urged a change to the “14-day rule” that represents a widely accepted limit on in vitro research involving the cultivation of human embryos. Some call for changing the limit to 28 days, another suggests “increments of 2 or 3 days,” up to at least 18 days. The Hastings Center recently issued a Report on Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies, which focuses...

Assisted Reproduction

How the Los Angeles Times shilled for the racist eugenics movement

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Los Angeles Times | 02.28.2021

Aggregated News

Last month, Caltech announced that the names of six men with historical ties to the university would be removed from all“campus buildings, assets, and honors.”This unnaming came as the institution renounced its historical connections to the Human Betterment...

U.S. Federal

The Dark Side of CRISPR

By Sandy Sufian and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Scientific American | 02.16.2021

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Americans have celebrated the fact that the Biden administration is embracing science and returning the country to evidence-based policymaking. We...

Human Genetic Modification

Heritable Human Genome Editing: Political Implications and Opportunities for Leadership

Internal Content

To: The Biden-Harris Administration

From: Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society[1]

December 2020...

Biopolitical Times

“Conceive with Confidence”!?

By Pete Shanks | 04.14.2021

A brand-new, well-financed genome analysis company called Orchid made a splash last week:

Orchid Blooms With $4.5M Seed For...

Review: The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 04.05.2021

It’s not for nothing that Time, Inc. developed its formula for telling stories—catchy lede, billboard that tells 'em what you’re...

Society

Things We Are (Nearly, Perhaps) Able to Do with Human Embryos

By Pete Shanks | 03.23.2021

At least five separate studies involving human embryo research are raising fresh versions of old questions about science, ethics and...

Assisted Reproduction

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Big Tech’s guide to talking about AI ethics

By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 04.13.2021

AI researchers often say good machine learning is really more art than science. The same could be said for effective public relations. Selecting the right words to strike a positive tone or reframe the conversation about AI is a delicate...

Biotech & Pharma

Ronald Fisher Is Not Being ‘Cancelled’, But His Eugenic Advocacy Should Have Consequences

By Eric Michael Johnson, This View of Life | 04.12.2021

Photo by Schutz, stained glass designed by Maria McClafferty,
CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

While Black Lives Matter protests raged and confederate statues were toppled across the United States following the killing of George Floyd, the quiet removal of...

Genomics

The genetic mistakes that could shape our species

By Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future | 04.12.2021

He Jiankui seemed nervous.

At the time, he was an obscure researcher working at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. But he had been working on a top-secret project for the last two years – and he was...

Human Genetic Modification

AI companies are enabling genocide in China

By Michael Chertoff and N. MacDonnell Ulsch, The Washington Post | 04.12.2021

"Uyghur man" by Evgeni Zotov is
licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the Uyghur people will go down in history as one of the worst human rights tragedies of our time — not just for...

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