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Human Germline and Heritable Genome Editing: The Global Policy Landscape

By Françoise Baylis, Marcy Darnovsky, Katie Hasson, and Timothy M. Krahn, The CRISPR Journal | 10.20.2020

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Abstract

Discussions and debates about the governance of human germline and heritable genome editing should be informed by a clear and accurate understanding of the global policy landscape. This policy survey of 106 countries yields significant new data. A large...

Policies

UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out

By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times | 10.26.2020

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In late 2018, UC Berkeley bioethics professor Osagie K. Obasogie received a campus email about a research fund available to faculty members in the School of Public Health. 

He was stunned by what he read.

The Genealogical Eugenic Institute Fund,...

Bioethics

CIRM May Be on the Verge of Winning

By Pete Shanks | 11.12.2020
Biopolitical Times

Proposition 14, the California ballot initiative that, if passed, would continue and increase public financing for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine...

Policies

Crispr Gene Editing Can Lead to Big Mistakes in Human Embryos

By Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.29.2020

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Scientists using the Crispr gene-editing technology in human embryos to try to repair a gene that causes hereditary blindness found it...

Human Genetic Modification

Biopolitical Times

The Biden Administration and Genetically Engineered Bioweapons Research

By Gwen D’Arcangelis, Guest Contributor | 01.07.2021

Photo by Adrian Lange on Unsplash

Living under the COVID-19 pandemic has justifiably created fear and uncertainty about germs and...

Synthetic Biology

CGS in 2020

By CGS | 01.07.2021

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay 

The last year was extraordinary. It challenged, touched, and changed all of us...

Assisted Reproduction

Notable Blog Posts in 2020

By CGS | 01.07.2021

Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

Following a Biopolitical Times tradition, we present some of our favorite blog posts of...

Biopolitics

News

Human Molecular Genetics and Genomics — Important Advances and Exciting Possibilities

By Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D., Eric S. Lander, Ph.D., and Charles N. Rotimi, Ph.D., The New England Journal of Medicine | 01.07.2021

The breathtaking progress in molecular genetics that has occurred over the past five decades and the transition to genomic medicine would have been difficult to imagine in 1970, when the Institute of Medicine (IOM), now the National Academy of Medicine...

Human Genetic Modification

Gene editing of crops and livestock may soon be permitted in England

By Fiona Harvey, The Guardian | 01.06.2021

Gene editing of crops and livestock may soon be permitted in England for the first time under a consultation launched by the government on Thursday.

Ministers said changing the current strict rules, which originate from the EU and make...

Animal Biotechnologies

U.S. law sets stage for boost to artificial intelligence research

By Jeffrey Mervis, Science | 01.06.2021

Low-income commuters who rely on public transit face many challenges—multiple transfers, long waits, and off-hour travel—that aren’t measured in the usual ridership surveys. Vanessa Frias-Martinez, a computer scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, wants to ease their commute...

Policies

CRISPR cures progeria in mice, raising hope for one-time therapy for a disease that causes rapid aging

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 01.06.2021

Biologists tend not to discuss experimental results on a handful of cells and a single solitary mouse — too preliminary, too sketchy. David Liu of the Broad Institute therefore had no plans to present such findings, which he’d peeked at...

Animal Biotechnologies

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