Technologies

Will Putin Prevent Rebrikov from Attempting Heritable Genome Editing?

By Pete Shanks | 10.08.2019
Biopolitical Times
The Russian molecular biologist who wants to edit the genomes of human embryos is getting impatient with authorities who won't yet let him go ahead.
Policies

U.S. Government Plans to Collect DNA from Detained Immigrants

By Caitlin Dickerson, The New York Times | 10.02.2019

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The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin collecting genetic data on hundreds of thousands of immigrants in federal detention facilities.
Genomics

Despite Calls for a Moratorium, More ‘Three-Parent’ Babies Expected Soon

By Emily Mullin, One Zero | 09.16.2019

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At least 10 babies have been born to apparently infertile women as a result of a controversial in vitro fertilization...

Assisted Reproduction
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Nature still battles nurture in the haunting world of social genomics

By Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 01.15.2018

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Eugenics
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Genetic engineering is advancing fast, and it’s time to talk about ethics

By Matthew Hansen, Omaha World-Herald | 01.12.2018

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Human Genetic Modification
A laboratory scientist, looks into a microscope.

International Society of Prenatal Diagnosis issues new guidelines for prenatal genome-wide sequencing

By Marsha Michie, Prenatal Information Research Consortium | 01.12.2018

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Genetic Selection
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What AI Can Do for IVF

By Carol Lynn Curchoe and Charles L. Bormann, Scientific American | 01.10.2018

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Technologies
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What Should IVF Practitioners Disclose to Expectant Parents?

By Nana Matoba, Scientific American | 01.10.2018

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Assisted Reproduction

What Just Happened? Looking Back at 2017’s Human Germline Editing Developments

By Leah Lowthorp and Katie Hasson | 01.10.2018
Biopolitical Times
Policies
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When ignorance leaves pregnant surrogates on the wrong side of Cambodian law

By Yon Sineat, Kong Meta and Erin Handley, Phnom Penh Post | 01.10.2018

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Assisted Reproduction
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Meet the Woman Using CRISPR to Breed All-Male “Terminator Cattle”

By Andrew Rosenblum, MIT Technology Review | 01.10.2018

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