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Genome editing at the Crick
- How CRISPR has shaped the way the Crick does science
Francis Crick Institute, 2022
- Genome editing is changing the debate
Francis Crick Institute, 2018
General introductions to genome editing
- Genetic technologies
The Royal Society
- Human genome editing
World Health Organisation
Science news on genome editing
- Genome editing news
Progress Educational Trust
Ethics and governance reports on genome editing
World Health Organisation position paper and recommendations on genome editing
Human genome editing: position paper (PDF download)
World Health Organisation, 2021Human genome editing: recommendations (PDF download)
World Health Organisation, 2021Human genome editing: a framework for governance (PDF download)
World Health Organisation, 2021
Nuffield Council on Bioethics report on genome editing
- Genome editing and human reproduction (PDF)
Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2018
National Academies Press reports on human genome editing
- Heritable human genome editing (PDF download)
National Academies Press, 2020
- Human genome editing: science, ethics and governance (PDF download)
National Academies Press, 2017
Genetic Alliance report on patients' perspectives on genome editing
- Genome editing technologies: the patient perspective (PDF)
Genetic Alliance, 2016
Disability and racial justice perspectives on heritable genome editing
- Engineering for perfection: the false promises of gene editing in assisted reproduction (PDF download)
Meghna Mukherjee and Nairi Shirinian, Othering & Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 2022
- Missing voices initiative
Center for Genetics and Society
- Open letter to the planning committee of the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing (PDF)
Center for Genetics and Society, 2021
- Disability rights and heritable genome editing: resources for teaching and learning
Center for Genetics and Society, 2019
- Russia's CRISPR "deaf babies": the next genome editing frontier?
Center for Genetics and Society, 2019
- Illness or identity? A disability rights scholar comments on the plan to use CRISPR to prevent deafness
Center for Genetics and Society, 2019
- 5 reasons why we need people with disabilities in the CRISPR debates
Center for Genetics and Society, 2016
- Future past: disability, eugenics, & brave new worlds
Center for Genetics and Society, 2013
- The ‘perfect’ baby?: the dangers of gene editing in assisted reproduction
Center for Genetics and Society, 2022
- Equity, sovereignty, and racial justice: beyond access in debates on human genome editing
Center for Genetics and Society, 2022
- Alice Wong - "Resisting ableism: disabled people and human gene editing" (video, 13m30s)
Stanford Medicine X, 2017
- Disability justice and gene editing: exploring multiple perspectives (video, 1h15m25s)
Center for Genetics and Society, 2017
- Assembly for the Future: the last disabled oracle (video, 49m00s, requires Vimeo login)
The Things We Did Next, 2020
- The 'perfect' baby? The dangers of gene editing in assisted reproduction (video with transcript, 56m21s)
Othering & Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 2022
Comment pieces by writers with lived experience of genetic conditions
- The patients who don't want to be cured
Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 2018
- Please don't edit me out
Rebecca Cokley, The Washington Post, 2017
- Why I'm speaking about human genetic engineering as a Black woman with disabilities
Anita Cameron, Center for Genetics and Society, 2017
Genome editing and 'enhancement'
- Real-life X-Men: how CRISPR could give you superpowers in the future
Synthego
- Should we create superhumans?
Doha Debates, 2020
- Designer babies? Hi-tech preimplantation genetic testing may soon come to Israel
Times of Israel, 2022
- Hipster eugenics: better babies for billionaires
Center for Genetics and Society, 2022