The CRISPR Babies Stories
Read expert commentary on the CRISPR baby story by Ethic Commons faculty:
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Tina Rulli, Using CRISPR to edit eggs, sperm, or embryos does not save lives
https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/15/reproductive-crispr-does-not-save-lives -
Mark Yarborough, Twentieth-century science education and 21st-century genetic engineering technologies: A toxic mix
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08989621.2019.1596031?journalCode=gacr20 -
Paul Knoepfler, Gene editing: sloppy definitions mislead
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07802-2 -
Paul Knoepfler, We need a temporary moratorium on using gene editing to create babies
https://www.statnews.com/2018/12/03/temporary-moratorium-gene-editing-babies - Paul Knoepfler, Trying to connect the dots on CRISPR baby story paints a dark, cloudy picture
https://ipscell.com/2018/11/trying-to-connect-the-dots-on-crispr-baby-story-paints-a-dark-cloudy-picture/
- Paul Knoepfler, Why CRISPR baby production (if it happened) was unethical & dangerous
https://ipscell.com/2018/11/why-crispr-baby-production-if-it-happened-was-unethical-dangerous/
- Mark Yarborough, Who missed the chance to stop the CRISPR babies scientist? Look in the mirror
https://www.statnews.com/2018/11/30/missed-chance-stop-crispr-babies-scientist/
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Tina Rulli, The Case Against Public Investment in Reproductive Genetic Modification
https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/case-against-public-investment-reproductive-genetic-modification - Francoise Baylis & Lisa Ikemoto, The Council of Europe and the prohibition on human germline genome editing
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.15252/embr.201745343