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Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times | 06.29.2020
Calls for “extreme altruism” in the time of coronavirus are disturbing in light of what the pandemic has revealed about how we differentially value lives.
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An interview with Dr. Stuart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy, about recent news that researchers created mouse-human chimera with the highest percentage of human cells to date. |
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Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 06.26.2020
The soaring rhetoric in 2000 suggested that treatments for disease were just around the corner and would revolutionize medicine. Today, affordable gene therapy seems still to be a long way off.
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David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 06.22.2020
Voters will decide whether the state stem cell agency should get a major infusion of public money. CGS Executive Director Marcy Darnovsky noted that the initiative “does little to ease the serious concerns about CIRM that have been voiced for years by the Center for Genetics and Society, other public interest advocates, and researchers, and echoed by several policy bodies.”
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HERITABLE HUMAN GENETIC MODIFICATION | GENE THERAPY | EUGENICS | RACISM | BIOETHICS |
STEM CELLS | LAW ENFORCEMENT | REGULATION | ASSISTED REPRODUCTION | TRANSHUMANISM
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HERITABLE HUMAN GENETIC MODIFICATION |
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Heidi Ledford, Nature | 06.25.2020
Three studies showing large DNA deletions and reshuffling heighten safety concerns about heritable genome editing. “If human embryo editing for reproductive purposes or germline editing were space flight, the new data are the equivalent of having the rocket explode at the launch pad before take-off,” says geneticist Fyodor Urnov.
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Alison Motluk, HeyReproTech | 06.23.2020
The controversial gene-editing technique mis-snips again. And thanks to embryos donated to science, we know about it.
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Ben Fidler, BioPharma Dive | 06.26.2020
Two children who suffered liver problems have died after receiving a high dose of a gene therapy in a clinical trial. The technology had shown enough promise in early tests that the company had sold last December for $3 billion.
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Rob Stein, NPR | 06.23.2020
Victoria Gray is the first person with a genetic disorder to get treated in the United States with CRISPR. The billions of genetically modified cells doctors infused into her body clearly appear to be alleviating virtually all the complications of her disorder, sickle cell disease.
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Shilpa Jindia, The Guardian | 06.30.2020
A new documentary focuses on the nearly 1,400 involuntary sterilizations that were conducted in California prisons between 1997 and 2013.
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Associated Press | 06.28.2020
“It’s genocide, full stop. It’s not immediate, shocking, mass-killing on the spot type genocide, but it’s slow, painful, creeping genocide,” said Joanne Smith Finley, who works at Newcastle University in the U.K. “These are direct means of genetically reducing the Uighur population.”
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University College London, UCL News | 06.19.2020
Signs on the Galton Lecture Theatre, Pearson Building and Pearson Lecture Theatre will be taken down immediately. Other changes to the names on maps and signposts around UCL will take place as soon as is practicable.
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Eli Cahan, Science | 07.02.2020
The names being changed include open supporters of eugenics and white supremacy. Historian Alexandra Minna Stern comments that they “make visible the values and priorities and beliefs of an institution.”
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Rhea W. Boyd, Edwin G. Lindo, Lachelle D. Weeks, and Monica R. McLemore, Health Affairs | 07.02.2020
Despite racism’s alarming impact on health, and the wealth of scholarship that outlines its ill effects, preeminent scholars and the journals that publish them routinely fail to interrogate its key role in racial health inequities.
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Alan Goodman, Discover | 06.25.2020
For over 300 years, socially defined notions of “race” have shaped human lives around the globe — but the category has no biological foundation.
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Bethany Brookshire, ScienceNews | 07.07.2020
How do we ethically test a vaccine? Can people be forced to get it if they don’t want it? Who should get it first? A slew of ethical questions arise long before anything is loaded into a syringe.
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Larry R. Churchill, Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, Hastings Center Report | 06.29.2020
A focus on “lifeboat ethics” drives ethics resources away from persistent and systemic problems—in particular, the structural injustices that give rise to health disparities affecting disadvantaged communities of color.
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David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.26.2020
All but one of the Directors of CIRM endorsed a proposed $5.5 billion bond measure to refinance the agency. Jeff Sheehy, a patient advocate member of the board since its inception in 2004, voted no and supplied a lengthy statement explaining his decision.
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Brent Schrotenboer, USA Today | 06.22.2020
Stem cell businesses are trying to take advantage of coronavirus fear by marketing unproven treatments. The FDA and FTC have sent several warning letters to stem-cell-related firms over the past few months.
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David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.07.2020
Genetic material is being collected from men across the country to help solve crimes, but researchers worry the data will be misused.
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Heather Murphy, New York Times | 06.26.2020
The Louisiana case highlights how prosecutors and crime labs withhold key documents from defense lawyers, keeping some defendants in custody for months or years.
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Natasha Foote, EURACTIV | 07.03.2020
Over 78 environmental and agricultural organisations signed a letter this week calling for a moratorium on gene drive technology. EURACTIV takes a closer look at the controversial technology.
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Natalie Kofler and Jennifer Kuzma, Boston Glob | 06.22.2020
Last month, the US Environmental Protection Agency approved the release of genetically modified mosquitoes. This is just the first step toward Oxitec selling its proprietary mosquito to US mosquito-control boards, and by extension US taxpayers.
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Peter Aldhous, BuzzFeed News | 07.04.2020
If we don’t want unproven DNA tests to become the snake oil of the 21st century, we need something similar to drug approval for genetic testing.
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Cecily Huang, ABC [Australia] | 06.27.2020
The case highlights several aspects of the fraught issue of fertility in China, from government control to social and demographic pressures to the high cost of raising children.
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Jonathan Matthews, GMWatch | 07.06.2020
Even by transhumanist standards, the ructions that have just rocked the US Transhumanist Party over their 2020 Presidential candidate have been remarkable. “Cannibalism of any sort and by any means, including auto-cannibalism, is not tolerated by the USTP.”
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