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Report calls for better safeguards to prevent bioterrorists from weaponizing new technology
Source: www.science.orgCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Gene Therapy in the Womb Is Inching Closer to Reality - 12 month(s) ago
Treatment in utero could cure diseases before birth. Recent advances in lab animals may bring medicine closer to achieving it—but this field is still in its infancy.
Source: WiredCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Researchers are testing new techniques for delivering gene therapies in utero on lab animals. One delivery technique shows that these therapies, when injected, could risk accidental germline edits. https://t.co/kdhzXzLj5Q
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Mashup Score: 0How is the state doing in compensating forced sterilization survivors? - 12 month(s) ago
More than a year later after the state approved reparations for survivors, the agency responsible for administering the program reports disappointing progress.
Source: Santa Rosa Press DemocratCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
More than a year later after the state approved reparations for survivors, the CA Victim Compensation Board has approved just 80 applications, less than 20% of those received. Limited outreach may explain why few survivors have applied for compensation. https://t.co/1pDudydLUr
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Mashup Score: 2Gene Genies? - 12 month(s) ago
A new exhibition at The Crick asks (some) questions about the ethics of gene editing. Jane Clinton discovers that it’s a topic for debate
Source: Camden New JournalCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
The Francis Crick Institute’s exhibition Cut + Paste examines genome editing, but makes no mention of Crick’s embrace of eugenics. https://t.co/YzkPlCFLvC
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Mashup Score: 1First UK Babies Born after “Three-Person IVF”: Why all the secrecy? - 12 month(s) ago
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Source: Center for Genetics and SocietyCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
The secretive way in which this controversial human experimentation has been conducted raises disturbing issues and many unanswered questions. It is past time for the details to be examined by experts and published for all to see. https://t.co/lntN38hmcr
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Genetic tests on embryos can predict a baby’s future health. At least that’s what the advertisements say.
Source: MIT Technology ReviewCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
A startup says it will assess embryos created in IVF clinics for their future chance of common diseases and then rank them, so parents can pick the one with the best future. Critics call it “consumer eugenics.” https://t.co/OoKtvr6oUK
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Experts split on whether group comparisons, which could perpetuate discrimination, should be done
Source: www.science.orgCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Genomics studies that attempt to make “group comparisons” based on genetic links to social outcomes such as income and education and to traits such as intelligence exacerbate a harmful and incorrect social narrative about differences between racial groups https://t.co/Np5kwou5Jx
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Mashup Score: 0Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back - 1 year(s) ago
Elon Musk is the most prominent face of the effort to protect tech’s privilege
Source: www.disconnect.blogCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Eugenics has a long history in Silicon Valley, and the triad of effective altruism, longtermism, and pronatalism is bringing it back. Elon Musk is arguably the most visible face of its resurgence. https://t.co/gY8xrmm88t
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Mashup Score: 1What Happened to Concerns About Human Enhancement? - 1 year(s) ago
Prominent science policy reports that set the stage for the recent Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing all raise questions about human
Source: The Hastings CenterCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Largely left off the program at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, enhancement asserted itself as a concern, and rightly so: using CRISPR for enhancement raises grave concerns and deserves more scrutiny. https://t.co/ESVwOP41oY
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As newborn screening programs expand to include babies’ entire genomes, parents must be made aware of the privacy risks and states must create rules to rein in unbridled police access to this data.
Source: American Civil Liberties UnionCategories: Genetics, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Despite police misuse of biological data from newborns in the U.S., researchers have proposed sequencing newborns’ full genomes. More regulation is needed to protect the privacy of infants and their families. https://t.co/ZflBgiddF3
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Advances in DNA synthesis technology will offer any lab the chance to buy a benchtop DNA printer that can make DNA on demand, heightening concerns that malign actors could synthesize DNA to make a powerful toxin or pathogen. https://t.co/ktm7eA4i58