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Live Blogging #GeneEditSummit Day 2 Post #1: Governance of human gene editing

February 1, 2021 / By
Barbara-J.-Evans

Now we have an interesting panel starting on questions of governance on human gene editing. This will focus on institutional and national levels of governance. Pilar N. Ossorio, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Morgridge Institute for Research, is introducing the panel. Key question: how should emerging technologies being governed? Jonathan Kimmelman, from McGill, was the first …

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Live Blogging #GeneEditSummit Day 1 Post #4: Societal Implications of human gene editing

February 1, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
Hille-Haker

This is post #4 of my live blogging of the #GeneEditSummit today. It is focused on societal implications so I’m really looking forward to it. You can read posts 1-3, here, here, and here summarizing the talks and key points from the meeting so far. Annelien L. Bredenoord, University Medical Center Utrecht, chaired the session. John Harris, …

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

February 1, 2021 / By / 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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Live Blogging #GeneEditSummit Day 1 Post #2: State of the Science, #CRISPR

February 1, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
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Now we hear from the scientists on the front lines of CRISPR, covered in this post #2 of the Human Gene Editing Meeting. You can read Post #1 here. Jennifer Doudna starts off the big human gene editing science session on the current state of the human gene editing science and CRISPR. She gave an …

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Live Blogging NAS Human Gene Editing Summit: #GeneEditSummit

February 1, 2021 / By
Jennifer-Doudna

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS)  summit on Human Gene Editing will begin in a few days on December 1 in Washington, D.C. This summit is in part the extension of discussions that started at a more informal meeting on CRISPR earlier this year in Napa organized by Jennifer Doudna and colleagues. The NAS meeting …

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As science blogger, how to handle plagiarism & other text reuse issues

February 1, 2021 / By / 5 Comments
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If you write about science on the web such as a blogger (e.g. me here on The Niche), chances are that your work has been used by someone else without your permission. What can you or should you do about that if anything? This re-use can range from what turn out to be appropriate occurrences …

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Why interview Steven Pinker on my blog if I strongly disagree with him?

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments
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Earlier this week I posted an interview with Steven Pinker on CRISPR, human germline modification, and bioethics. With only a few exceptions, I strongly disagree with Pinker’s philosophy in these areas and I knew going into the interview that his answers would likely go against my own views. I also expected the interview would anger …

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