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

Aggregated News

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
Figure 3. Fundus of patient with retinitis pigmentosa, end stage (Pigment deposits are present all over the retina. Retinal vessels are very thin and optic disc is pale.) Hamel Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2006 1:40 doi:10.1186/1750-1172-1-40 (Wikimedia)

Texas Woman Is the First Person to Undergo Optogenetic Therapy

By Katherine Bourzac, MIT Technology Review | 03.18.2016

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Genomics

Why Surrogacy Laws Must Be Established — the Story of the Ott-Dahls

By Keston Ott-Dahl, HuffPost | 03.18.2016

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Assisted Reproduction

A look inside the Czech Republic’s booming fertility holiday industry

By Amy Speier, The Conversation | 03.17.2016

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Global Governance

Scientists develop new human stem cells with half a genome

By Bill Berkrot, Reuters | 03.16.2016

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Assisted Reproduction
Statue of a young boy in the Reflection Garden at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon (Flickr/Mary Harrsch).

Jordan Schnitzer Gets a Son—and a Court Battle

By Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week | 03.16.2016

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Assisted Reproduction

The Limits of Personalized Medicine

By Timothy Caulfield, The Atlantic | 03.16.2016

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Genomics

The Government seem more interested in our genes than our voices

By Edward Hockings & Lewis Coyne, The Guardian | 03.15.2016

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Human Genetic Modification

If we’re not careful, epigenetics may bring back eugenic thinking

By Maurizio Meloni, The Conversation [UK] | 03.15.2016

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Bioethics