August 26, 2024
(Axios) – Biosecurity experts are calling on governments to set new guardrails in an effort to limit the risks posed by advanced AI models being applied to biology. Why it matters: AI models trained on genetic sequences have double-edged potential … Read More
August 26, 2024
Bioethics (vol. 38, no. 7, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 23, 2024
(The Guardian) – First patient in UK gets dose of jab designed to kill most common form of lung cancer – and stop it coming back Doctors have begun trialling the world’s first mRNA lung cancer vaccine in patients, as … Read More
August 22, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Futurists who write about the destiny of humankind have imagined all sorts of changes. We’ll all be given auxiliary chromosomes loaded with genetic goodies, or maybe we’ll march through life as a member of a pod … Read More
August 16, 2024
(Nature) – Now, scientists are finding connections to modern relatives of African American ironworkers in eighteenth-century Maryland and to notable historical figures, such as Ludwig van Beethoven and the Native American leader known as Sitting Bull. Unravelling these relationships, researchers … Read More
August 16, 2024
(The Conversation) – I’m a medical anthropologist and bioethicist who studies the values and experiences driving prenatal gene therapy developments, including genome editing. Human prenatal genome editing has not happened yet – as far as we know. Prenatal genome editing … Read More
August 9, 2024
(BBC) – The first therapy that uses gene-editing is to be offered on the NHS in a “revolutionary breakthrough” for patients. It will be used as a potential cure for the blood disorder beta thalassaemia. Stem cells which make blood … Read More
August 8, 2024
(New York Times) – After promising results in monkeys, scientists plan to test the new treatment in a few people with H.I.V. Scientists have developed a new weapon against H.I.V.: a molecular mimic that invades a cell and steals essential … Read More
August 6, 2024
(Ars Technica) – The physician-scientist had just mastered a new chromosome-staining technique in a year-long sabbatical at Oxford. But it was in the dining room of her Chicago home where she made the discovery that would dramatically alter the course … Read More
July 31, 2024
(ABC News) – The World Health Organization announced Monday that it has launched an initiative to help accelerate the development of a human bird flu vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. The project, which will be led by Argentinian pharmaceutical … Read More
July 26, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned to work on the concept of altering the DNA of people at conception, but with a … Read More
July 26, 2024
(MedPage Today) – A seventh patient has achieved sustained HIV remission after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to a new case report. What is especially notable about this patient is that he received a transplant with a single, rather … Read More
July 26, 2024
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 32, no. 7, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 24, 2024
(New York Times) – Progress in the quest to help progeria patients suggests that gene editing techniques may help treat other ultrarare conditions. A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on the horizon. The disease speeds up aging … Read More
July 24, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 390, no. 21, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 23, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 1, no. 5, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
July 22, 2024
(Associated Press) – Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. The first gene-edited pig organs ever transplanted … Read More
July 19, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – If we’re going to protect ourselves from genetic discrimination, we first have to figure out what it is. Unfortunately, no one has a good handle on how widespread it is, says Yann Joly, director of the … Read More
July 16, 2024
(Reuters) – Vertex Pharmaceuticals sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday, seeking a court declaration that a fertility support program for patients who are prescribed its gene editing therapy Casgevy does not violate federal anti-kickback laws. … Read More
July 10, 2024
(New York Times) – Lisa Pisano, 54, lived with the organ for 47 days. She was the first patient to receive both a heart pump and an organ transplant, doctors said. The patient, Lisa Pisano, was critically ill, suffering from … Read More
July 9, 2024
(Undark) – One person’s DNA became the centerpiece of a genetic sequence used by biologists the world over. Did he agree to that? To piece the story together, Undark reviewed more than 100 emails, letters, and other digital documents housed … Read More
July 9, 2024
(GEN) – Porteus is a scientific co-founder of CRISPR Therapeutics, the company that launched the exa-cel CRISPR trial that culminated in the approval of Casgevy in December 2023. With the latest companies he has co-founded—first Graphite Bio, now Kamau Therapeutics— … Read More
July 2, 2024
(Associated Press) – The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to accelerate development of a pandemic influenza vaccine that could be used to treat bird flu in people, as concern grows about cases in dairy cows … Read More
July 1, 2024
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 32, no. 6, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Evaluation of a two-step Model of opportunistic genomic Screening” by Melissa Martyn, et al. “A Framework for the Evaluation and Reporting of … Read More
June 26, 2024
(Nature) – Project covering one-fifth of the country’s population is one of the largest-ever efforts to share results on genetic health risks with research participants. The project is one of the world’s biggest efforts to return genetic results to research … Read More
