

A bipartisan trio of senators on Monday introduced a resolution underscoring their opposition to the experiments last year in China that led to the birth of the world’s first genome-edited babies
Quick ReadA bipartisan trio of senators on Monday introduced a resolution underscoring their opposition to the experiments last year in China that led to the birth of the world’s first genome-edited babies
Quick ReadAn international commission, including our Jeffrey Kahn, has been convened by the NAM, NAS, and the Royal Society with the participation of science & medical academies around the world, to develop a framework for scientists, clinicians, and regulatory authorities to consider when assessing potential clinical applications of human germline genome editing
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How to Stop Rogue Gene-Editing of Human Embryos?January 24, 2019 |
Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist’s intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards
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Refusal To Give Pregnant Women Vaccines Branded UnacceptableDecember 6, 2018 |
Failure to vaccinate pregnant women during deadly infectious disease outbreaks is putting them and their unborn children at risk, a new report has warned
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Should Pregnant Women Receive an Ebola Vaccine Despite WHO Recs?October 17, 2018 |
Inclusion of pregnant women in live vaccine trials is an ethical imperative
Quick ReadThe Harvard Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (the “ESCRO”) Committee, an ethics oversight committee charged with reviewing research protocols involving human embryos, human embryonic stem cells, and certain activities with non-embryonic human pluripotent stem cells, recently issued a report exploring the ethical issues related to the creation of synthetic human embryos
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Revising the GenomeDecember 4, 2017 |
CRISPR lets scientists edit our genetic source code. This is going to be interesting. With comments from our Debra Mathews
Quick ReadEthics guidance on priorities, inclusion, and evidence generation – enriched with additional links and resources, and broken into expandable sections for ease of reading and reference
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