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Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 10.08.2020
This award is an opportunity to celebrate the importance of women in science, and a chance to broaden the discussion about how human genome editing should be used.
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An online symposium in May 2021 will examine the role of California’s institutions of higher education — including UC, CSU, and private colleges and universities — in promoting, sustaining, and mainstreaming eugenics. The event will be organized by the California Eugenics Legacies Project, an interdisciplinary network of academics, educators, and others including the Center for Genetics and Society. The project is supported by an award from the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and welcomes interested participants. For information, contact Miroslava Chavez-Garcia at [email protected] or Susan Schweik at [email protected].
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Jonathan Kahn, Marcy Darnovsky, and Jonathan Marks, Biopolitical Times | 10.05.2020
When Trump talks about his own and his supporters’ good genes, he is encouraging his followers to see certain others as having bad genes, or perhaps as “polluting” our body politic. This insidious idea has provided the foundation for some of the most unjust, repressive, and inhumane regimes in human history.
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Terry McSweeney, NBC Bay Area | 10.04.2020
Supporters said the research has already lead to important medical breakthroughs, including for COVID-19 victims. Opponents said the proposition is more "shameless overpromising" with money that could be better spent elsewhere.
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Caitlin Harrington, Wired | 10.02.2020
“They're tying these traits to your DNA and to a particular ethnicity,” says Katie Hasson, program director on genetic justice at the Center for Genetics and Society. “There's a real danger that it reinforces the mistaken, outdated, and dangerous idea that race and ethnicity are biological, and all of the ills that have come along with that.”
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San Francisco Bay Guardian | 10.01.2020
Proposition 14: Big pharma should fund stem cell research. “The Center for Genetics and Society, a progressive forward-thinking group in Berkeley, opposes this measure. So do we.”
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NOBEL FOR CRISPR | PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT | EUGENICS TODAY | EUGENICS HISTORICAL CONTEXT | ASSISTED REPRODUCTION | GENE THERAPY | ANIMAL TECHNOLOGIES |
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Katherine J. Wu, Carl Zimmer and Elian Peltier, New York Times | 10.07.2020
“We as a community need to make sure we recognize we are taking charge of a very powerful technology,” Dr. Doudna said. “I hope this announcement galvanizes that intention.”
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Ben Guarino, The Washington Post | 10.07.2020
“This year’s prize is about rewriting the code of life,” said Goran K. Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. “I wish that this will provide a positive message, specifically, to young girls who would like to follow the path of science,” Charpentier told reporters Wednesday morning.
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Amanda Heidt, The Scientist | 10.07.2020
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna reprogrammed the bacterial immune response into one of the most popular tools for genetics and molecular biology.
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Linda Geddes, The Guardian | 10.07.2020
Doudna has previously admitted to worrying about how the technology she helped develop might be used, including even dreaming that Hitler approached her about potential applications. “Global transparency is a key step in ensuring responsible use of the technology in the future,” she said.
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Jackie Leach Scully, Nuffield Council Blog | 10.02.2020
Gesturing towards comprehensive public involvement in decisions about heritable genome editing is laudable. Unfortunately, the ritual invocations in reports like these often give the impression of either being a performative duty, or revealing extreme naivety about the real complexity of the kind of public engagement needed.
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Christopher D. Wirz , Dietram A. Scheufele & Dominique Brossard, Environmental Communication | 09.29.2020
Gene editing is an inherently wicked problem with no single right answer and no group uniquely positioned to decide this answer. This special issue discusses the intricacies of the debates surrounding both plant and human applications of gene editing.
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Caitlin Dickerson, Seth Freed Wessler and Miriam Jordan, The New York Times | 09.29.2020
Immigrants detained at an ICE-contracted center in Georgia had invasive gynecology procedures that they later learned were unnecessary, and fit a pattern of “excessively aggressive surgical intervention without adequate trial of medical remedies.”
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Alan Judd, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 09.26.2020
“If you take a blade to a woman’s body, you need to have informed consent,” [Rep.] Ruiz said. “Otherwise, it is an assault.”
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Lizzie Wade, Science | 09.24.2020
Abigail Echo-Hawk can’t even count how many times she’s been called a troublemaker. “I didn’t used to know what to say,” she says. “Now, my answer is, ‘Is calling for justice making trouble?’ … The system of colonialism in the United States has created, and continues to increase risk factors for, poor health outcomes in Native communities.”
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Chris Peacock, Stanford News | 10.08.2020
The decision follows a review conducted this summer by a committee of faculty, staff, students and alumni.
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Cynthia R. Greenlee, Medium | 09.23.2020
At one time, virtually every state advocated “human betterment” by culling the ranks of so-called undesirable people — often working-class White people, girls and women judged to be sexually precocious or promiscuous, the mentally ill, the incarcerated or substance abusers, and those with chronic illnesses. Increasingly, those undesirables were Black, Latinx, and Native people.
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Georgia Rosenberg, The Stanford Daily | 09.22.2020
Alfred Binet’s IQ tests inspired Stanford psychologist Lewis Terman, a convinced eugenicist who viewed intelligence as an innate, biological difference between racial groups. Carl Brigham, also a eugenicist, built on Terman’s work to develop the SAT in 1926, which helps entrench cultural biases to this day.
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Thelma Annan, Popsugar | 09.22.2020
Forced sterilization in America is not a random imitation of Nazi eugenic history; it's a vile continuation of our own. This timeline presents key dates relating to the history of forced sterilization in the U.S., from the 19th century through the 21st.
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Alison Motluck, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 10.06.2020
A donor profile features a man in tip top health with a stellar career. A sperm bank promotes his product. If the man is actually mentally ill, unemployed and has a criminal record, is that consumer fraud?
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Oliver Carroll, The Independent | 10.02.2020
State investigators are equating single fathers to baby traffickers, and warning that they will arrest men with "non-traditional orientation." Russia's LGBT+ communities are concerned, though a veteran activist cautioned against drawing conclusions beyond the realm of one criminal case.
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James Gallagher, BBC | 09.30.2020
After Brown received a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to HIV, the virus was never detected in his body again. He was in effect "cured." But the leukemia, which led to his HIV cure, returned earlier this year and spread to his brain and spinal cord.
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Emily Mullin, Medium | 09.29.2020
Tweaking a person’s DNA could provide hearing to those born without it, but not everyone thinks deafness needs to be ‘cured.’
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Friends of the Earth | 10.06.2020
A new report by Friends of the Earth and Dr. Eva Sirinathsinghji summarizes the gaps in research on experimental gene-silencing pesticides and the risks they pose to human health, the environment, and farmers.
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Sarah Radford, Horse and Hound | 10.02.2020
Researchers in Argentina have produced what is believed to be the world’s first genetically edited horse embryo, using CRISPR/Cas9 technology to try to knock out the myostatin gene (MSTN), which negatively regulates muscle mass development.
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Amanda Heidt, The Scientist | 10.01.2020
Almost 60 percent of people in a new study on attitudes in the US felt comfortable using animals to grow human organs from induced pluripotent stem cells.
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Coco Feng, South China Morning Post | 09.23.2020
The risks of organ rejection and transmitting porcine viruses have limited the use in humans of transplants from pigs, but advances in gene-editing technology could change this.
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