Bioethics Forum EssayWhy Avoid the “M-Word” in Human Genome Editing?It is a truism that good ethics begins with good facts. Here are some of the facts about the ethics and politics of heritable human genome editing from 2015 to 2019.Read Why Avoid the “M-Word” in Human Genome Editing?Bioethics Forum EssayHe Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure, Part 2: How Different Are Chinese and Western Bioethics?When the world’s first research on editing the genes of human embryos by Chinese scientists was published in an international journal in 2015, a report in the New York Times...Read He Jiankui’s Genetic Misadventure, Part 2: How Different Are Chinese and Western Bioethics?Bioethics Forum EssayGene Editing, “Cultural Harms,” and Oversight MechanismsIs 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...Read Gene Editing, “Cultural Harms,” and Oversight Mechanisms
