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- Facing Dementia: Clarifying End-of-Life Choices, Supporting Better Lives
Posted on February 28, 2024
A new Hastings Center special report considers how America’s aging society responds to the needs and concerns of people facing dementia. New therapies that may slow progression of this terminal... - After the First CRISPR Drug, What’s Next?
Posted on February 8, 2024
The first therapy using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology—a drug for sickle-cell disease-—was approved a couple of months ago and hailed as a milestone. What might be the next CRISPR drugs?... - Hastings Center Welcomes 13 New Fellows
Posted on January 23, 2024
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of the 2023 fellows. Hastings Center fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has... - Does the Endangered Species Act Permit Deliberate Extinction of Harmful Species?
Posted on January 2, 2024
Does the Endangered Species Act, the landmark 50-year environmental law, protect dangerous invasive species from deliberate extinction using new genomic technologies? That question was the focus of a comment in... - Scholars Elected Hastings Center Fellows
Posted on December 12, 2023
Five Hastings Center senior research scholars were elected Hastings Center fellows on December 8, 2023: Nancy Berlinger, Josephine Johnston, Gregory E. Kaebnick, Karen J. Maschke, and Erik Parens. Read about... - Johnston Elected Hastings Center Fellow
Posted on December 11, 2023
Josephine Johnston, a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, was elected a Hastings Center Fellow on December 8, 2023. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals...
