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Technologies
On September 3rd, Heritable Human Genome Editing was published. This Report was the work of a multinational Commission organized...
The Consensus Study Report of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing convened by the...
Countries contemplating giving the green light to heritable genome editing received specific guidance from an international commission this week on...
In a high-level report precipitated by the birth of CRISPR babies in China in 2018, scientists say the technology’s next...
Policies
In 2004, California voters agreed to borrow $3 billion to bankroll a stem-cell research program dedicated to seeking cures for...
California's 21 million voters soon will be receiving mail that tells them a $5.5 billion stem cell ballot measure is...
COVID-19 test results come back within 24 hours – or even faster. Hotels have been transformed into quarantine units. Scientists...
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that...
Society
In August 1964, the North Carolina Eugenics Board met to decide if a 20-year-old Black woman should be sterilized. Because...
Poor laboratory practices at a Boston company that performed Covid-19 tests for dozens of nursing homes in Massachusetts put patients...
"People across the country have made it clear that they don’t want to eat genetically engineered salmon, and food retailers...
In the past few weeks, public-health experts were rightfully outraged at moves by the US Centers for Disease Control and...
Perspectives
How might greater social justice for those who have unjustly been marginalized best be achieved? Perhaps cross-movement solidarity is the...
An article about women engineers, published in 1908, has a promising start: If women are attending technical schools and are...
On August 6, 2020 I gave a talk, “The Last Disabled Oracle,” as part of Assembly for the Future, a...
The argument seemed reasonable in theory: “We are pleased that our state values life no matter an individual’s potential disability,...