Human Gene Editing | Spring 2019 https://issues.org/issue/35-3/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:22:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Human Gene Editing | Spring 2019 https://issues.org/issue/35-3/ 32 32 Islamic Ethical Perspectives on Human Genome Editing https://issues.org/islamic-ethical-perspectives-human-genome-editing/ https://issues.org/islamic-ethical-perspectives-human-genome-editing/#respond Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:00:54 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17954 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

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]]> https://issues.org/islamic-ethical-perspectives-human-genome-editing/feed/ 0 Philosopher’s Corner: Open Science, Open Access, and the Democratization of Knowledge https://issues.org/philosophers-corner-open-science-open-access-and-the-democratization-of-knowledge/ https://issues.org/philosophers-corner-open-science-open-access-and-the-democratization-of-knowledge/#respond Mon, 03 Jun 2019 13:00:10 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17935 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

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]]> https://issues.org/philosophers-corner-open-science-open-access-and-the-democratization-of-knowledge/feed/ 0 The Medium of Modernity https://issues.org/the-medium-of-modernity/ https://issues.org/the-medium-of-modernity/#respond Mon, 27 May 2019 13:00:30 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17937 Artificial illumination occupies a
paradoxical position in modern daily life. It is a ubiquitous technology,
pervading almost every interior space and shaping nighttime environments. Yet
despite (or perhaps because of) its omnipresence,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-medium-of-modernity/feed/ 0 Selling AI: The Case of Fully Autonomous Vehicles https://issues.org/selling-ai-the-case-of-fully-autonomous-vehicles/ https://issues.org/selling-ai-the-case-of-fully-autonomous-vehicles/#respond Mon, 20 May 2019 13:00:54 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17958 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

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]]> https://issues.org/selling-ai-the-case-of-fully-autonomous-vehicles/feed/ 0 Three Venues for Discussing Human Gene Editing https://issues.org/three-venues-for-discussing-human-gene-editing/ https://issues.org/three-venues-for-discussing-human-gene-editing/#respond Mon, 13 May 2019 13:00:57 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17950 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

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]]> https://issues.org/three-venues-for-discussing-human-gene-editing/feed/ 0 Rights to Life? https://issues.org/rights-to-life/ https://issues.org/rights-to-life/#respond Wed, 08 May 2019 13:00:25 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17940 In 1996, the United States Patent and Trademark
Office (PTO) awarded patent protection to Myriad Genetics for a gene that it
had sequenced, called BRCA1, and a test for diagnosing mutations in… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/rights-to-life/feed/ 0 What Do Patents Mean? https://issues.org/what-do-patents-mean/ https://issues.org/what-do-patents-mean/#respond Mon, 06 May 2019 13:00:57 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17964 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

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]]> https://issues.org/what-do-patents-mean/feed/ 0 From Lucid Stead https://issues.org/from-lucid-stead/ https://issues.org/from-lucid-stead/#respond Wed, 01 May 2019 13:00:46 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17968 The exhibition From Lucid Stead: Prints and Works by Phillip K. Smith III is on view at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, from March 18 through September 13, 2019.… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/from-lucid-stead/feed/ 0 Who Can You Trust? https://issues.org/who-can-you-trust/ https://issues.org/who-can-you-trust/#respond Wed, 01 May 2019 13:00:39 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17943 Kevin Werbach’s The Blockchain and the New Architecture of
Trust offers
easy-to-follow explanations of how a technology resting on foundations of
mutual mistrust can become trustworthy. If you are interested in gaining… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/who-can-you-trust/feed/ 0 Human Genome Editing: Our Future Belongs to All of Us https://issues.org/our-future-belongs-to-all-of-us/ https://issues.org/our-future-belongs-to-all-of-us/#respond Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:00:18 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=17952 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

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