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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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2017-04
Program on Science, Technology & Society, Harvard Kennedy School
The Global Observatory for Genome Editing grew out of this event, which took place at Harvard University in 2017.
2017
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
This brief notice announced to researchers and the public that the funding moratorium on gain-of-function research instituted in 2014 would be lifted. This announcement came after the U.S. Government conducted a risk/benefit analysis on such research.
2017
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Human Gene Editing: Scientific, Medical, and Ethical Considerations
The National Academies of Sciences and Medicine convened a committee to summarize the important considerations for the future of human gene editing, including both somatic and germline editing. They lump these considerations into three categories: the scientific, the medical, and the ethical.
2017
J. Benjamin Hurlbut
In Experiments in Democracy, Observatory Co-Director Ben Hurlbut traces a history of the American debates, forms of reasoning, norms, and institutional struggles that have faced the moral status of the human embryo and justified its use for research purposes.