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In Search of Limits in the Age of Genome Editing
CGS’ Katie Hasson will speak on Friday, May 13 at this in-person event, organized by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Global Observatory for Genome Editing. The workshop will explore limits to technological applications, to research, and to knowledge; limits on the scope of deliberation and extent of participation, on the range of moral questions that should be asked, and on the forms of reasoning, evidence, and expertise required to make informed and democratic decisions.
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California’s little-known history of eugenics
Crystal Qian and Elizabeth Cheng, The Epic | 05.12.2022
"We really haven’t had a historical reckoning in this country with eugenics," said Marcy Darnovsky. "There’s so much more that has to be done to unpack these histories, the persistence of these ideas and the resurgence in some circles.”
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HUMAN GENE EDITING | ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
EUGENICS | GENOMICS | SURROGACY360 | VARIOUS
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Putting an End to Heart Attacks by Editing Human DNA
Angelica Peebles, Bloomberg | 05.06.2022
Verve Therapeutics is developing an experimental gene therapy to stop the buildup of bad cholesterol, which if left untreated can reduce blood flow in the arteries and result in heart attacks or strokes.
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Where Harvard's Legacy of Slavery Lives Today
Cara J. Chang, Isabella B. Cho, Ella L. Jones, And Monique I. Vobecky, The Harvard Crimson | 05.02.2022
A landmark University report released last week found that at least 41 prominent Harvard affiliates enslaved Black and Indigenous people — and many others propagated discrimination and racism through their leadership and scholarship.
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Our Obsession with Ancestry Has Some Twisted Roots
Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker | 05.02.2022
From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes. The history of genealogy makes clear that stories about ancestry can function as instruments of exclusion.
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As PopSci turns 150, we reflect on the highs and lows of our long history
Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science | 05.02.2022
In the early 20th century, Popular Science lent credence to the eugenics movement. Eugenic ideology applied advances in our understanding of evolution and genetic inheritance to support racist, sexist, and xenophobic policies that disproportionately impacted Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people.
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Substituting genetic ancestry for race in research? Not so fast
Anna C. F. Lewis, STAT | 05.02.2022
Race, widely used as a variable across biomedical research and medicine, is an appropriate proxy for racism — but not for anything biological. Proposals to use genetic ancestry instead of race are at risk of perpetuating the same problems.
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Daniel Navon, Scientific American | 05.05.2022
Non-invasive prenatal testing has complex eugenic effects — not because of 20th-century coercive and racist government programs, but because thousands of legitimate, intensely personal decisions will transform the population-level distribution of some forms of disability and difference.
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Alice Klein, New Scientist | 05.03.2022
Since humans split from chimpanzees, a single letter change in our DNA appears to have made us more likely to get cancer, possibly as a trade-off for extra fertility.
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'It's a Terrible Thing When a Grown Person Does Not Belong To Herself'
Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine | 05.04.2022
The starkness of war has laid bare the many ethical tensions that exist in surrogacy arrangements, casting into bold relief the power dynamics that underlie a contract in which a woman signs over the whole of her physical self.
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