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Lab-Made Gametes Take Center Stage

By Katie Hasson | 05.16.2023
Biopolitical Times

"Human Egg" by euthman is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

In late April, the National Academies held a three-day workshop on In Vitro Derived Human Gametes as a Reproductive Technology. Experts from a broad range of fields commented on the fast-developing science, its potential applications in assisted reproduction, and its social implications. Despite a focus on the significant technical challenges that remain in developing these techniques and the notable inclusion of several critical voices, the overall...
Assisted Reproduction

Beyond IVF: Scientists debate ethics of human reproduction without egg and sperm

By Karen Weintraub, USA Today [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 04.23.2023

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Scientists are getting closer to the possibility of making a new person from skin or blood cells – without the need for sex.

This approach goes well beyond in vitro fertilization, which combines egg and sperm in a laboratory, because it doesn't require natural eggs...

Assisted Reproduction

Why Oppose Heritable Genome Editing?

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Hear from scholars and activists on why they oppose heritable genome editing. Find image descriptions for the video here.

First UK Babies Born after “Three-Person IVF”: Why all the secrecy?

By Pete Shanks | 05.15.2023
Biopolitical Times

Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute

The Guardian reports that “a small number of babies” with...

Human Genetic Modification

Biopolitical Times

Lab-Made Gametes Take Center Stage

By Katie Hasson | 05.16.2023

"Human Egg" by euthman is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

In late April, the National Academies held...
Assisted Reproduction

CGS provides comments to National Council on Disability about heritable gene editing

By CGS Staff | 05.15.2023

On May 4, the Center for Genetics and Society contributed invited remarks about heritable gene editing at a comment session...

Human Genetic Modification

First UK Babies Born after “Three-Person IVF”: Why all the secrecy?

By Pete Shanks | 05.15.2023

Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute

The Guardian reports that “a small number of babies” with...

Human Genetic Modification

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First UK baby with DNA from three people born after new IVF procedure

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 05.09.2023

The first UK baby created with DNA from three people has been born after doctors performed a groundbreaking IVF procedure that aims to prevent children from inheriting incurable diseases.

The technique, known as mitochondrial donation treatment (MDT), uses tissue from...

Assisted Reproduction

Hundreds of forced sterilization survivors are owed money from California. Only a handful have received it

By Phil Barber, The Press Democrat | 05.03.2023

On the final day of 2021, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a program meant to soothe some of the harm the state had inflicted on its wards over the span of a century.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2022, and continuing through...

U.S. States

The ethics, equity, and governance of human genome editing need greater consideration

By Sarojini Nadimpally, The BMJ | 05.03.2023

Challenges exist around heritable gene editing, its potential medical applications, ethical implications, and the need for regulatory mechanisms in the field. In March this year I spoke at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in London, about...

Genomics

Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy stirs hopes and controversy

By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.02.2023

When Chase Finazzo was just a few years old, his parents noticed Chase was pretty clumsy. But they didn't think it was anything serious.

"He would fall a lot. Not like a lot a lot. But he had trouble climbing...

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