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September 3, 2019

Our Best Values Must Guide Our Most Powerful Technologies

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Soon after a series of incredible discoveries almost five decades ago launched the era recombinant DNA (later renamed genetically modified organisms, or GMOs), some of the world’s leading scientists and…

July 15, 2019

Has the Third CRISPR Baby Already Been Born?

Has the Third CRISPR Baby Already Been Born? https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/babies.jpg?time=1603232627 800 480 Jamie Metzl Jamie Metzl https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png July 15, 2019 July 15, 2019

For years, I have been saying the genetics revolution is not just coming but already here. As we unlock the secrets of our genomes and systems biology more broadly, we…

June 10, 2019

Inviting You to a Genetic Engineering Dinner Party (*)

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I am inviting you to a dinner party – where you are the host. You can invite whomever you’d like: your family, friends, co-workers, book club members, etc. The preparation…

July 25, 2018

Louise Brown at 40!

Louise Brown at 40! https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/louise-brown1.jpg?time=1603232627 284 177 Jamie Metzl Jamie Metzl https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png July 25, 2018 July 25, 2018

Forty years ago today, Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby,” was born in Manchester, England. The idea that a human could be conceived outside the mother’s body is now commonplace but it shook the world back in 1978.

May 1, 2016

Homo Sapiens 2.0? We Need a Species-Wide Conversation on the Future of Human Genetic Enhancement

Homo Sapiens 2.0? We Need a Species-Wide Conversation on the Future of Human Genetic Enhancement https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/genetic-man.jpg?time=1603232627 230 219 Jamie Metzl Jamie Metzl https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png May 1, 2016 March 2, 2017

In my article in TechCrunch, released today, I call for a species-wide conversation on the future of human genetic enhancement. Such a dialogue has never before been carried out. We…

January 13, 2015

Would I Genetically Enhance My Own Children?

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When someone at a Los Angeles book event asked me a personal question, I was already disarmed, exposed, and predisposed to a more personal answer.

“Would you genetically enhance your own children?”

February 25, 2014

Our Conversation of Genetic Modification must be Evidence-Based

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Marcy Darnovsky’s call to arms against “radical biological procedures,” namely mitochondrial transfer from the eggs of a woman with healthy mitochondria to replace the diseased mitochondria of an aspiring mother, in her New York Times editorial today [linked here] goes too far.

February 4, 2014

NY Times story on PGD only the tip of the iceberg!

NY Times story on PGD only the tip of the iceberg! https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Jamie Metzl Jamie Metzl https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.254/f0b.20a.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png February 4, 2014 February 4, 2014

Gina Kolata’s important article in today’s New York Times (linked here) on the ethical questions surrounding preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and embryo selection only touches the very tip of the genetic iceberg.