The Center for Genetics and Society blog highlights the latest developments in the social, political, and ethical implications of human biotechnologies, with contributions from staff, fellows, consultants, and guest authors.
Biopolitical Times
The Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, better known as the Oviedo Convention, explicitly bans heritable human genome editing in the 29 countries that have signed and ratified it. It has done so for close to...
A stellar panel discussed how to bring a broader and more critical understanding of equity into current societal and public policy conversations about heritable genome editing.