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- Erik Parens Addresses National Academies on Human Genetic Enhancement
Posted on July 15, 2016
What if gene editing technologies such as CRISPR could be used to safely and effectively “enhance” future generations – to make them, for example, better able to perform on IQ... - Point-Counterpoint: Callahan and Venter on Genetic Progress
Posted on June 14, 2016
What if any limits should there be on genetic research aimed at extending human longevity? Hastings Center cofounder Daniel Callahan and geneticist J. Craig Venter, parse the ethical quandaries in... - Gregory Kaebnick on Responsible Use of Gene Drives
Posted on June 8, 2016
A National Academy of Sciences committee released a major report on June 8 on the responsible use of gene drives, a rapidly developing field of research that holds promise for... - New Book by Hastings Cofounder Daniel Callahan
Posted on May 10, 2016
In his new book, Daniel Callahan, cofounder and President Emeritus of The Hastings Center, takes on five global crises: climate change, food shortages, water shortages and quality, chronic illness and... - Call to Revisit a “Line in the Sand” Limiting Human Embryo Research
Posted on May 4, 2016
Josephine Johnston, director of research and a research scholar at The Hastings Center, has joined two co-authors in proposing a reexamination of an internationally recognized rule limiting in vitro research... - Hastings Project Addresses Profound Questions about Human Gene Editing
Posted on April 13, 2016
The Hastings Center has launched an international project that focuses on the social and ethical implications of using powerful gene editing methods on human germline cells (embryos, sperm, and eggs)....
