Human Gene Editing

With the end of the border wall brouhaha, Congress passed omnibus legislation that set funding levels for fiscal year 2019. As anticipated, the budget includes substantive increases for key science agencies including… Read More

Science bills itself as working for the common good, but a growing number of scientists, policy-makers, and the social scientists who study them argue that science is too isolated from society to… Read More

Following the demise in 2010 of federal cap-and-trade legislation aimed at slowing greenhouse gas emissions, environmental donors gathered in Chicago in 2011 to meet with David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel, pressing the… Read More

The interest in exploring the interplay of genomics and Islamic ethics took an important turn at the beginning of the 1990s, when the international Human Genome Project was declared. Since then, both… Read More

In the past several years, an array of technologists, economists, and technology pundits have predicted that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to revolutionize our lives, changing how we work, play,… Read More

Little did we know when we were writing the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report Genome Editing and Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Issues, published in July 2018, how quickly our call… Read More

A few years ago, I met with a group from a company interested in a technology I had developed and my company had patented. After the standard niceties, followed by a technical… Read More

In late November 2018, the Chinese scientist He Jiankui ignited a media firestorm with the birth announcement of “healthy” twin girls, Lulu and Nana (pseudonyms), born following germline genome editing to provide… Read More

On November 25, 2018, much of the world (including me) was shocked to hear of the birth of the world’s first babies produced from embryos whose DNA had been edited by the… Read More

In June 2018, President Trump issued an executive order, “Restoring the Rule of Law, Federalism, and Economic Growth by Reviewing the ‘Waters of the United States’ Rule,” that directed the Environmental Protection… Read More

Globalization and advanced technology have defined twenty-first century manufacturing, creating a hypercompetitive environment where continuous growth in productivity has become imperative—not just for the success of firms, but for their survival. Nowhere… Read More

Most scientists with relevant expertise attribute UFO sightings to misperception of celestial or meteorological phenomena. Distant planets, comets, and clouds have often been mistaken for alien spacecraft by sophisticated observers. So why has a topic long confined to the tabloids and fringe media become a serious news story?