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Nita Farahany Interview on Human Germline Modification: Defining A Road Forward

July 28, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

The topic of heritable human genetic modification has been heating up recently. Prominent scientists, ethicists, and legal scholars have being weighing in, and there is a range of attitudes. Some favor a complete, moratorium including even lab work, while on the other end of the spectrum there are those who have a more liberal perspective. Many …

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Interview with transhumanism leader Maria Konovalenko

July 6, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 21 Comments

The transhumanism movement has been garnering attention lately for a variety of views including embracing aspects of heritable human genetic modification. Earlier this year I interviewed geneticist and transhumanist, George Church. In this post I interview molecular biophysicist and transhumanist Maria Konovalenko. She is the program coordinator at the Science for Life Extension Foundation. In …

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Biotechnology & the Ethical Imagination – A Preview of BEINGS summit

May 4, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Aaron Levine

Later this May, I will attend and participate in Biotechnology and the Ethical Imagination (BEINGS 2015). This is an exciting and experimental summit that will focus on advances in cellular biotechnology – including both stem cell science and synthetic biology. The meeting is premised on the idea that the implications of increasing biotechnology power are …

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Jennifer Doudna Interview on CRISPR, Human Gene Editing

April 14, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

I’m doing a series of interviews with leaders in the field on human germline modification with the first interview in this series with George Church and today’s second in this series is a conversation I had with Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer in CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Doudna is a Professor in MCB and Chemistry as well …

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Rumors flying on human embryo editing papers

April 9, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

We’ve all heard the human embryo editing rumors. There is a sense that human embryos have already been CRISPR’d. Rumors are rumors and they may mean not a whole lot, but there definitely is a huge buzz on this right now both in a positive sense and with concern. The excitement is over the power of …

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David Baltimore, et al. path for human germline engineering

March 19, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

In a new perspectives piece in Science, Nobel Laureate David Baltimore and co-authors including Jennifer Doudna and George Church, chart a potential path forward for human germline engineering. See also accompanying Bioethics piece by Gretchen Vogel as well, “Embryo engineering alarm”. In the piece, entitled “A prudent path forward for genomic engineering and germline gene …

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Proposed Moratorium on Genetic Modification of Human Germ Cells

March 13, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

One of the hottest topics in the biomedical world in 2015 is heritable human genetic modification including via germ cells. There is an unsettling sense that genetically modified human germ cells and eventually GMO human beings are likely coming even if science and society are not ready for it. There are a hodgepodge of laws against human …

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Austen Heinz of Cambrian Genomics Interview: GMO creatures & people

January 14, 2015 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 5 Comments

What’s Cambrian Genomics? With rapid advances in genomics, gene editing, and methods to reproduce life in the lab such as cloning, today creating genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has never been easier. While there have been of course loads of discussions of GMOs in the past, we are entering a new era of what one might …

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‘Adventurous’ woman sought to carry Neanderthal baby: candidate for dumbest stem cell story of 2013 already pops up

January 22, 2013 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D.

The headline reads: ‘Adventurous’ woman sought to carry Neanderthal baby Supposedly Harvard Geneticist George Church, according to Der Spiegel magazine (and gazillions of other mainstream media outlets that translated the German piece including here), wants to clone a Neanderthal baby using an unholy combination of stem cell and genetics technologies. The only problem is that Church …

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Doubts raised on key points of Nature paper on CRISPR gene editing of human embryos

August 30, 2017 February 1, 2021 / By Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 11 Comments

Is it possible that CRISPR gene editing actually didn’t happen in many of the human embryos in that big Nature paper that made such news a couple weeks back? Some doubts have emerged that call the main conclusions of the paper into question and argue that more definitive studies are needed to be sure. An …

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