Podcast Review: CRISPR Updated
Radiolab explores the science, the uses and the ethics of CRISPR in this podcast that was two years in the making...
Radiolab explores the science, the uses and the ethics of CRISPR in this podcast that was two years in the making...
Researchers have used whole-genome sequencing to uncover new mutations responsible for a rare type of pancreatic cancer...
An influential advisory group has given cautious support to the idea of making heritable changes to the human genome in order to treat or prevent disease...
by Rachel Siden
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has published a statement recommending caution over the clinical application of genome editing...
Jewish bioethics may help to broaden the discussion of the ethical concerns that emerge from editing the human genome...
by Professor Vardit Ravitsky and 5 others
Gene editing, in particular CRISPR/Cas9 technology, is sweeping the scientific world and has been receiving ample attention from policymakers worldwide. Policy statements and academic papers regarding responsible ways of moving forward with gene editing have already been published...
The US National Institutes of Health is considering lifting a ban on the funding of research to create human-animal 'chimeras' and replacing it with an ethical review process...
by Professor Felicity Boardman
My research on families living with the genetic disorder Spinal Muscular Atrophy calls into question some of the assumptions underlying the belief that genetic disease is, inherently and by its very definition, a trait to be avoided...
by Ayala Ochert
A second team in China report that they have created genetically modified human embryos, in an attempt to make them resistant to HIV, using the genome-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9...
The US NAS has published a report on the ethical, social and policy considerations relating to mitochondrial replacement techniques. The recommendation that has inevitably attracted most attention, however, is that only male embryos should be transferred, an approach that was considered but rejected in the UK...
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