#geneeditsummit

Life is draining. Especially now what with the revelations brought by the GeneEditSummit just had. A arrogant man. That I refuse to believe acted alone in this endeavor. Has claimed to have created the worlds first genetically altered human babies. Two twin girls. With a unsafe and not well researched method with far unseen consequences down the road.

Read up and learn about this folks. Because like it or not it happened to our knowledge. And there is another child yet to be born that is on the way.

Meeting report from April 29th Paris Human Gene Edit Meeting

Editor’s note. Caroline Simons attended both the April 28th (see her report on that here) and 29th Paris meetings on human gene editing/genetic modification. Today, we have her in depth report on the April 29th meeting. I have posted her piece in full with only minor edits. If you are in a rush you can skip to the last page for Caroline’s top 10 takeaways from the meeting.

By Caroline Simons

The…

Meeting summary of Paris human gene editing workshop

Editors note: This is a guest from Caroline Simons who is attending the two Paris meetings on human gene editing. For more background on those meetings see here.

By Caroline Simons

There were just over a hundred participants at the workshop organized by the Federation of European Academies of Medicine, the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the Académie Nationale de Médecine France. That number…

GOP Congress seeks ban on CRISPR of human embryos

GOP members of Congress want a ban on CRISPR of human embryos. They are moving to block genetic modification of human embryos using the new CRISPR gene editing technology.

The new proposed spending bill part way through the approval process with the nugget of good news of a possible NIH spending boost after many years of losing ground against inflation, reportedly also contains language to block…

Just freakin do it: patients voice impatience on CRISPR for genetic diseases

Both before and particularly now after the big human gene editing summit in Washington, D.C. at the National Academy of Sciences, I’ve talked with patients about their views on this new technology including at last week’s World Stem Cell Summit.

One of the most striking moments of the DC summit was when the mother of a pediatric patient made the comment after a talk about human gene editing that…

Perspectives: no moratorium from organizers of #GeneEditSummit

I just got back from a historic summit on human genetic modification in Washington, D.C. New genetic modification technology, termed CRISPR-Cas9, has both made genetic modification a relatively simple matter for scientists and human genetic modification much more likely in the near future.

Heritable human genetic modification could prevent some rare genetic diseases so there is real potential…

Top highlights from day 2 of #GeneEditSummit

NAS photo

Day 2 of the Human Gene Editing Summit in DC was quite interesting and added more depth to the meeting overall. For specific talks, see my two posts from yesterday here and here. Also see my top takeaways from Day 1.

What were the top highlights of Day 2?

Somatic work.We shouldn’t only focus on germline human genetic modifications even if that is the most explosive issue. Yesterday we…