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2021-09
Elizabeth Svoboda
Writing in Nature, science writer Elizabeth Svoboda describes the recent technological developments that have potential to provide new knowledge about the early stages of human development and lead to the production of a new range of therapeutic interventions.
2021-09
Tsutomu Sawai , Go Okui , Kyoko Akatsuka , Tomohiro Minakawa
Japanese bioethicists and scholars defend the 14-day rule, pointing out that it was a promise and compromise that helped secure public trust in biomedicine. They also draw attention to concerns raised by others in the wake of the ISSCR’s 2021 revised guidelines.
2021-09
John P. Nelson , Cynthia L. Selin , Christopher T. Scott
This piece uses the framework of anticipatory governance to analyze the existing scholarly discourse on the governance of human genome editing.
2021-08
Julia Chain
In a speech given at a Progress Educational Trust conference, Julia Chain, Chair of the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), calls for the need to modernize the HFEA to “remain at the forefront of regulation in the years to come.” Chain suggests that the 1990 Human Fertilisation
2021-07
Zubin Master , Robin Lovell-Badge , Bartha Knoppers
A small group of ISSCR affiliates respond to letters from authors who have advocated keeping the 14-day limit.