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Surrogacy360 has released a COVID-19 advisory on international surrogacy. In addition to the usual risks of cross-border surrogacy arrangements, the pandemic raises additional concerns and heightened risks for all parties involved. The advisory urges avoiding international surrogacy arrangements at this time.
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CGS is pleased to introduce our new intern, Quinn Brashares. Quinn is interested in working towards social equity in the realms of genetic engineering, the justice system, and artificial intelligence. He recently graduated from the University of Miami with a BA in political and environmental science and plans to pursue a law degree in the coming years. Quinn says that CGS represents to him a paramount cause, a place to absorb and deepen knowledge, and a wonderful community of similar minds. Welcome, Quinn! |
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Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 07.20.2020
Enormous and potentially dangerous real-world consequences flow freely from Big Data toward a wide swath of individuals and communities.
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Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times | 07.20.2020
This self-published “intimate portrait” of Robert Edwards — British embryologist, IVF pioneer, Nobel prize-winner, and eugenicist — is an unfortunate hagiography.
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Ben Trefny, KALW | 07.20.2020
Who’s against Prop 14? For one, there’s the non-profit Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley. Also, while 22 CIRM board members voted to endorse the proposition, one voted against it. Patient advocate Jeff Sheehy wrote: “After spending all of this money, CIRM has yet to produce a single FDA approved product and the state has not achieved any healthcare cost savings from therapies developed by CIRM.”
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John Jackson, Fardels Bear | 07.13.2020
Stephen Hsu was pressured to resign as VP for Research at Michigan State University because of his support for scientific racism and eugenics. Since then he has attacked the “Twitter Mob,” which apparently includes the 550 faculty, staff, and students who signed a letter outlining their concerns about Hsu, and the Center for Genetics and Society, which wrote in support of the letter.
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HERITABLE HUMAN GENOME EDITING | GENE THERAPY | EUGENICS | DISABILITY RIGHTS | ASSISTED REPRODUCTION | GENOMIC DATA | BIG DATA | EULOGY |
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HERITABLE HUMAN GENOME EDITING |
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Katie Hafner, The New York Times | 07.22.2020
The prospect of erasing some disabilities and perceived deficiencies hovers at the margins of what people consider ethically acceptable.
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Michael Le Page, New Scientist | 07.12.2020
“I’m not going to take a stand,” Wilkinson [the head of the scientific team] added later, referring to whether future humans should be gene-edited. “I think it’s worth a debate.”
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Jon Hamilton, NPR | 07.27.2020
Clinical trials are very promising though there are still side-effects.
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Heidi Ledford, Nature | 07.08.2020
The technique could allow researchers to study, and perhaps even treat, diseases caused by mutations in the mitochondrial genome.
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Megan Molteni, Wired | 07.07.2020
Tessera Therapeutics is developing a new class of gene editors capable of precisely plugging in long stretches of DNA—something that Crispr can’t do.
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Benjamin Charles Garmain Lee, Current Affairs | 07.23.2020
Transhumanism has long been popular among the techno-libertarians of Silicon Valley, and the line between it and eugenics is not always completely clear. “Human enhancement” is the transhumanist euphemism for non-coercive eugenics.
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Darryl Fears and Steven Mufson, The Washington Post | 07.22.2020
The environmental group is speaking out against John Muir, who both fought to preserve nature and disparaged African Americans and Native Americans.
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Hayley Fowler, The News & Observer | 07.22.2020
Scholarly analysis of North Carolina’s eugenic sterilization program demonstrates how racially biased and genocidal it was.
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Alexis Soloski, The New York Times | 07.13.2020
Aldous Huxley’s alarmingly prescient 1932 novel of free love and social control is now a nine-episode series streaming on NBC’s Peacock service.
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Nikita Stewart, The New York Times | 07.21.2020
The feminist icon and reproductive-rights pioneer also lent support to a dangerous belief in improving the human race through selective breeding.
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Chelsea Cox, USA Today | 07.14.2020
Families around the country are protesting discrimination by health workers and others, including both police and election officials.
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Nora Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune | 07.22.2020
200 to 400 babies born to American surrogates are stranded in the US, with their biological parents in countries including China, France, Britain, and Israel. Paid international surrogacy is explicitly allowed only in a handful of places worldwide, including Russia, Ukraine and some US states.
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Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker | 07.20.2020
A Brooklyn couple’s daughter was due to be born in April, to a surrogate in Ukraine. Then the virus struck.
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Peter McGuire, TheJournal.ie | 07.14.2020
There is no legislation in Ireland covering reciprocal IVF – where one female partner provides the eggs and the other carries the baby – for same-sex couples, and the law has other significant omissions.
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Christine Kenneally, The New York Times | 07.23.2020
Scientists from the consumer genetics company 23andMe have published the largest DNA study to date of people with African ancestry in the Americas.
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Peter Aldhous, BuzzFeed News | 07.22.2020
GEDmatch was hacked and profiles exposed for several hours; also, MyHeritage was the object of a phishing attack.
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Ashley Gold, Los Angeles Times | 07.21.2020
The participants’ blood and DNA samples, along with their health records, offer researchers a trove of data about the pandemic’s effect on minorities.
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Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News | 07.10.2020
The legislation passed in 2017 but was extremely controversial on procedural grounds.
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Natasha Singer, The New York Times | 07.20.2020
Some government agencies had unsuccessfully pushed Google to make a change.
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Sara Morrisson, Vox | 07.16.2020
Peter Thiel’s data-mining company is increasingly working with governments, notably in the US and Britain.
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Nature Editorial | 07.22.2020
One hundred years after her birth, it’s time to reassess the legacy of a pioneering chemist and X-ray crystallographer.
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