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  Bioethicists from the U.S., Canada, and other countries gathered two weeks ago in Pittsburgh for the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.  Here are five themes that emerged: The breakdown of trust between institutions is having direct effects on public health and research, setting the stage for greater inequality.  Researchers are… Read more

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  Five Things Bioethicists See in Our Future

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  New book edited by Hastings Center scholars explores fundamental questions about the nature and well-being of human beings at a time when a revolutionary new biotechnology could permanently change the human species.

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  New Book: Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing

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  A prominent group of scientists, bioethicists, and other specialists from around the world recently called for a global moratorium on clinical uses of human germline editing—“changing heritable DNA (in sperm, eggs or embryos) to make genetically modified children.” Before a country allows this to proceed, these authors recommend establishing “broad societal consensus in the nation… Read more

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  Pursue Public Engagement, but Don’t Expect ‘Broad Societal Consensus’

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  Through a series of public events featuring writers, scholars, and artists with disabilities, the project will explore how technologies can be used to promote or thwart human flourishing.

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  National Endowment for the Humanities Supports New Hastings Center Project on Disability, Technology, and Flourishing

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  Breeders have worked for centuries to produce animals, such as greyhounds or racehorses, with traits for peak sport performance. Today, gene editing technologies such as CRISPR could accomplish in one generation what used to take decades: the creation of faster, stronger, or more resilient sports animals. Some animal sports enthusiasts believe that gene editing could… Read more

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  Is it Ethical to Genetically Edit Sports Animals?

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  A preliminary investigation by Guangdong Province in China of He Jiankui, the scientist who created the world’s first gene-edited babies, found that “He had intentionally dodged supervision, raised funds and organized researchers on his own to carry out the human embryo gene-editing intended for reproduction, which is explicitly banned by relevant regulations.” As bioethics scholars… Read more

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  Chinese Bioethicists Respond to the Case of He Jiankui

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  Three journalists received The Hastings Center Awards for Excellence in Journalism on Ethics and Reprogenetics. The awards were presented at an event in New York City on December 6 that celebrated the role of journalists in helping the public understand the science of heredity and the power of genetic and reproductive technologies. The keynote speaker… Read more

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  The Hastings Center Celebrates Outstanding Journalists

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  If all athletes had access to the same performance-enhancing drugs, wouldn’t that make competitions fair? If the purpose of sport is to maximize performance, shouldn’t we welcome technologies that do that? Mildred Z. Solomon, president of The Hastings Center, spoke with President Emeritus Thomas H. Murray, author of Good Sport: Why Our Games Matter — And… Read more

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  New “Hastings Conversations” Podcast: What’s Actually Wrong with Sport Doping?

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  The Oxford philosopher Julian Savulescu, among others, has argued that prospective parents engaging in embryo selection using preimplantation genetic diagnosis not only may seek to have genetically enhanced children but are morally obligated do so. (See, for example, his essay “Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children,” Bioethics, 15, no.5/6, 2001.) I argue that… Read more

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  Do We Have a Moral Obligation to Genetically Enhance our Children?

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  Is it reasonable to hope that concerns about “cultural harms” can be integrated into oversight mechanisms for technologies like gene editing? That question was raised anew for me by the recent National Academy of Sciences report on human genome editing and at a recent conference at Harvard on the international governance of genome editing technologies.… Read more

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  Gene Editing, “Cultural Harms,” and Oversight Mechanisms

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