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Live Blogging #GeneEditSummit Day 1 Post #3: human germline modification

December 1, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

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The post-lunch session is “Applications of Gene Editing Technology: Human Germline Modification”. Prior to hearing it I’m curious how cautious or gung-ho the speakers will be, or if their gestalt will be one of balance in the middle somewhere. Robin Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute, was the moderator of this session. He said, “We’d be […]

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List of Speakers for NAS Meeting on Human Gene Editing

October 1, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

Who will be speaking at the upcoming National Academy of Sciences (NAS) meeting on human gene editing? So far we haven’t known, but now we do (if you are eager to find out, skip to bottom of the post). The organizers of the meeting can be found here. Keep in mind that it is probable that

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NAS Meeting on Human Germline Modification Taking Shape

September 14, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 4 Comments

The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will hold a meeting on heritable human germline modification on December 1-3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. Invitations to the NAS meeting to individuals starting going out last week. The upcoming NAS meeting seeks to address these issues and discuss the possibility of a moratorium on clinical use of

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Are babies from same-sex couples possible?

March 3, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 9 Comments

A question that has come up with advances in stem cell technology: could same-sex couples have their own biological children? Since Shinya Yamanaka reprogrammed first mouse and then human ordinary cells into powerful pluripotent stem cells, termed induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, back in 2006-2007 many new research avenues have opened up. The impossible suddenly

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Big push for 3-parent IVF technology in UK

January 30, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

A new piece came out yesterday on the Wellcome Trust Blog, strongly promoting approval of so-called “3-Parent IVF” or Mitochondrial Transfer technology by the UK Parliament. As I written in the past (here and here), my view is that this would be a mistake at this time. There is room for respectful disagreement on this issue between scientists,

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Perspectives on CRISPR baby guy He Jiankui (贺建奎) going to jail

December 31, 2019 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 2 Comments

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Scientist He Jiankui(贺建奎) has been sentenced to 3 years in prison by Chinese authorities. Two collaborators also will go to jail. A piece in Science by Dennis Normile on the sentencing of He Jiankui ID’d the other two: “His collaborators were identified as Zhang Renli, of a medical institution in Guangdong province, and Qin Jinzhou, from a Shenzhen

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