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Improving Health Outcomes for Black Women and Girls With …

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Picking Embryos With Best Health Odds Sparks New DNA Debate

WebCGS is excited to announce the launch of a new anti-eugenics initiative that has been years in the making. Legacies of Eugenics in Science, Medicine, and …

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Human Genetic Modification Center for Genetics and Society

WebHuman genetic modification (or “gene editing”) can be used in two very different ways. Somatic genome editing changes the genes in a patient’s cells to treat a …

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Equity, Sovereignty, and Racial Justice: Beyond Access in Debates …

WebEquity, Sovereignty, and Racial Justice: Beyond Access in Debates on Human Genome Editing . How should we talk about equity in the context of human genome editing?

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Gene therapy can make a real impact on global health but we …

WebUnsplash. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can and should play a leading role in dictating the future of the world’s most advanced healthcare technologies, according to …

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Racial Health Disparities: It’s Inequality, Not Genes

WebA wonderful article in The Atlantic by Jason Silverstein gets right to the heart of it with its title: “ Genes Don't Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does .”. …

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What is Human Gene Editing

WebGenome editing is a way of making changes to specific parts of a genome. Scientists have been able to alter DNA since the 1970s, but in recent years, they have developed faster, …

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New definition of a human embryo proposed amid rapid scientific

WebVerve Therapeutics has suspended enrollment in the Phase Ib Heart-1 study evaluating its lead gene editing program VERVE-101 following a serious adverse event, …

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WHO outlines principles for ethics in health AI

WebThe six principles its experts came up with are: protecting autonomy; promoting human safety and well-being; ensuring transparency; fostering accountability; …

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Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

WebAdvocates for reproductive health, rights, and justice are increasingly aware of the safety and social risks of assisted reproductive technologies and other human …

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In a First, Surgeons Attached a Pig Kidney to a Human, and It …

WebVerve Therapeutics has suspended enrollment in the Phase Ib Heart-1 study evaluating its lead gene editing program VERVE-101 following a serious adverse event, …

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Gender, Justice and the New Human Biotechnologies

WebNew human biotechnologies hold potential for both great good and great harm. How can we reap the benefits they offer while minimizing the risks they pose for women's health, …

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How gene-edited microbiomes could improve our health

WebVerve Therapeutics has suspended enrollment in the Phase Ib Heart-1 study evaluating its lead gene editing program VERVE-101 following a serious adverse event, the company …

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Inside the opaque world of IVF, where errors are rarely made public

WebThe missteps were revealed only because a lawsuit and 2021 civil trial offered a rare glimpse inside the closed world of U.S. fertility care. Most of the time, …

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New Rule Allows Patients to Get Test Results Directly From Labs

WebNew Rule Allows Patients to Get Test Results Directly From Labs, Without Doctors’ Clearance

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Eugenics beliefs led to 60 years of forced sterilizations in Oregon

WebYears ago, I interviewed for a residency position at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Standing before the domed Victorian building at the campus entrance, I couldn’t help but …

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Disability Rights, Triage and Countering Eugenics in a Time of …

WebA decade ago, researcher Haruko Obokata caused a sensation when she published two papers in the journal Nature, in which she claimed that she had discovered …

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Eugenics today: where eugenic sterilisation continues now

WebEugenics was a mixture of science and social movement that aimed to improve the human race over generations. Those of good stock were to produce more children, and those of …

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Sickle Cell Patients Face a Tough Choice: Be Cured or Have Kids

WebCGS is excited to announce the launch of a new anti-eugenics initiative that has been years in the making. Legacies of Eugenics in Science, Medicine, and …

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DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest

WebAggregated News. People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think. When …

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Israel Admits Targeting Ethiopian Jews for Compulsory …

WebA decade ago, researcher Haruko Obokata caused a sensation when she published two papers in the journal Nature, in which she claimed that she had discovered …

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