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As part of its curating function, the Global Observatory collects, summarizes, and sorts resources relevant to the ethics and governance of emerging biotechnologies. Use the “Search and Filter” box on the left side of the page to navigate the resources in this database.
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2018
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
The UK’s independent Nuffield Council on Bioethics prepared this 2018 report in response to recent developments in biological genome editing techniques.
2017-11
J. Benjamin Hurlbut , Insoo Hyun , Aaron D. Levine , Robin Lovell-Badge , Jeantine E. Lunshof , Kirstin R. W. Matthews , Peter Mills , Alison Murdoch , Martin F. Pera , Christopher Thomas Scott , Juliet Tizzard , Mary Warnock , Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz , Qi Zhou , Laurie Zoloth
Spurred by recent announcements that researchers in the UK and USA had sustained human embryos in culture for nearly two weeks, Nature Biotechnology collected commentaries from more than a dozen experts on whether it was time to reassess the 14-day rule.
2017-08
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
The UK’s independent Nuffield Council of Bioethics convened an expert workshop to respond to the question of whether the 14-day rule should be reevaluated in the wake of new technological developments.
2017-05
Sarah Chan
In a column for the Hastings Center Report, bioethicist Sarah Chan opens up for discussion whether the 14-day rule could be revised, as it “was not intended to be set in stone” (2017:5).
2017-05
Giulia Cavaliere
This article explores the main arguments in favor of and against extending the 14-day limit for conducting research on human embryos. Cavaliere also provides an overview of the historical roots of the 14-day rule and notes that it favored compromise between competing moral views.