A wonderful moment for some transgressive scientific research. #GermlineEditing #CRISPRbabies
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Biotech Barbie’ says the time has come to consider CRISPR babies. Do scientists agree?
A company’s plan to edit the genomes of human embryos worries some researchers — but it might reflect the changing attitudes towards the controversial approach.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A wonderful moment for some transgressive scientific research. #GermlineEditing #CRISPRbabies
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
yeah, I wouldn't trust this human's grasp of what is actually possible w/r to modifying a human embryo. In fact, it looks more like she's the same type of gullible person that Elon and trump have relied on to get where they are.
#CRISPRBabies
#CRISPRBabies
February 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
yeah, I wouldn't trust this human's grasp of what is actually possible w/r to modifying a human embryo. In fact, it looks more like she's the same type of gullible person that Elon and trump have relied on to get where they are.
#CRISPRBabies
#CRISPRBabies
Along with #crisprbabies, China is pushing forward with CRISPR trials on adults to treat cancer. But they're losing track of patients, reports @wsj. https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-gene-editing-experiment-loses-track-of-patients-alarming-technologys-inventors-11545994801 via @WSJ
November 17, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Along with #crisprbabies, China is pushing forward with CRISPR trials on adults to treat cancer. But they're losing track of patients, reports @wsj. https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-gene-editing-experiment-loses-track-of-patients-alarming-technologys-inventors-11545994801 via @WSJ
Big crowd for #CRISPRbabies talk at @ETH_en
November 17, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Big crowd for #CRISPRbabies talk at @ETH_en
Far from opening the floodgates, the backlash after the birth of the first genetically modified babies in China is likely to close them even tighter #crispr #CRISPRbabies...
November 13, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Far from opening the floodgates, the backlash after the birth of the first genetically modified babies in China is likely to close them even tighter #crispr #CRISPRbabies...
I just spent time in my lab’s group meeting to discuss #CRISPRbabies. And heard from another scientist that he did the same for his lab🔥🔥🔥Highly recommend doing this (this week!) since trainees reflected-not only on that experiment-but also on their own projects. Thread..(1/9)
November 14, 2024 at 4:41 AM
I just spent time in my lab’s group meeting to discuss #CRISPRbabies. And heard from another scientist that he did the same for his lab🔥🔥🔥Highly recommend doing this (this week!) since trainees reflected-not only on that experiment-but also on their own projects. Thread..(1/9)
Two @MakingSciPub posts for weekend readers, one on the #blueprint metaphor inspired by @ProfSimonFisher and George Gamow, the other on the #CRISPRbabies publicity stunt : <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/26/blueprint-a-broken-metaphor/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/26/blueprint-a-broken-metaphor/ and...
Blueprint, a broken metaphor? - Making Science Public
Three things came together that made me write this post: observing an increased discussion of the blueprint metaphor in genetics and genomics around the publication of a book called Blueprint, reading an old article by George Gamow, and reading a footnote in a forthcoming book by Philip Ball entitled How to Build a Human. The ...
blogs.nottingham.ac.uk
November 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Two @MakingSciPub posts for weekend readers, one on the #blueprint metaphor inspired by @ProfSimonFisher and George Gamow, the other on the #CRISPRbabies publicity stunt : <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/26/blueprint-a-broken-metaphor/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/26/blueprint-a-broken-metaphor/ and...
"Making science by publicity stunt: The case of the CRISPR babies"
<a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/ #GeneEditSummit #CRISPRbabies
<a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/ #GeneEditSummit #CRISPRbabies
Making science by publicity stunt: The case of the CRISPR babies - Making Science Public
Science is supposed to be a public, systematic, consensible, evidence-based and collaborative enterprise. It’s also supposed to be carried out responsibly, not recklessly. Making science in public and making science public are complex processes. Making public science normally doesn’t consist in presenting fellow-scientists and members of the public with a ‘fait accompli’. This is however ...
blogs.nottingham.ac.uk
November 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM
"Making science by publicity stunt: The case of the CRISPR babies"
<a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/ #GeneEditSummit #CRISPRbabies
<a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/ #GeneEditSummit #CRISPRbabies
My two-pennies wroth on the #crisprbabies <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/ #GenomeEditSummit
Making science by publicity stunt: The case of the CRISPR babies - Making Science Public
Science is supposed to be a public, systematic, consensible, evidence-based and collaborative enterprise. It’s also supposed to be carried out responsibly, not recklessly. Making science in public and making science public are complex processes. Making public science normally doesn’t consist in presenting fellow-scientists and members of the public with a ‘fait accompli’. This is however ...
blogs.nottingham.ac.uk
November 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM
My two-pennies wroth on the #crisprbabies <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2018/11/29/making-science-by-publicity-stunt-the-case-of-the-crispr-babies/ #GenomeEditSummit
This blog post on #crispr and #responsibility might be of interest in the context of #crisprbabies <a href="http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-society/2018/11/20/conceiving-technologies-autonomous-agents-takes-responsibility-away-people-using/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-society/2018/11/20/conceiving-technologies-autonomous-agents-takes-responsibility-away-people-using/
On Society Conceiving of technologies as autonomous agents takes responsibility away from the people who are using them
blogs.biomedcentral.com
November 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM
This blog post on #crispr and #responsibility might be of interest in the context of #crisprbabies <a href="http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-society/2018/11/20/conceiving-technologies-autonomous-agents-takes-responsibility-away-people-using/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-society/2018/11/20/conceiving-technologies-autonomous-agents-takes-responsibility-away-people-using/
The 'race' (as in running race) metaphor in genomics. A post I wrote two years ago becomes topical again in the contact of #crisprbabies #GeneEditing #metaphor <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016/07/25/crispr-and-the-race-is-on-again/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016/07/25/crispr-and-the-race-is-on-again/
CRISPR - and the race is on (again) - Making Science Public
At the weekend I was reading an article in the Guardian about a team of Chinese scientists trying to use CRISPR/gene editing for the treatment of cancer; and I sighed. The article contained some of the standard and, I believe, quite worn-out tropes that pepper coverage of advances in biotechnology: playing God, designer babies…, as ...
blogs.nottingham.ac.uk
November 8, 2024 at 2:25 AM
The 'race' (as in running race) metaphor in genomics. A post I wrote two years ago becomes topical again in the contact of #crisprbabies #GeneEditing #metaphor <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016/07/25/crispr-and-the-race-is-on-again/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016/07/25/crispr-and-the-race-is-on-again/
Should we edit the genes of babies? There will be endless discussions in the coming days about which conditions would justify its use. How about enabling otherwise infertile men to have children? #CRISPR #crisprbabies...
November 13, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Should we edit the genes of babies? There will be endless discussions in the coming days about which conditions would justify its use. How about enabling otherwise infertile men to have children? #CRISPR #crisprbabies...