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Feminist bioethicists and disability theorists speak out on Russia’s use of CRISPR to alter hereditary deafness
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Posted on by July 11, 2019
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Over at Canada’s Impact Ethics blog, feminist bioethicists and disability theorists Teresa Blankmeyer Burke and Jackie Leach Scully reflect on the Russian project to use CRISPR technologies to “correct a mutation that leads to hereditary deafness.” Blankmeyer Burke and Scully … Continue reading →

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Gene editing technology: Where should we draw the line?
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Posted on by October 31, 2017
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Editor’s Note: This guest post comes to us from bioethicist Françoise Baylis. Professor Baylis is the Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University, Editor of the Canadian bioethics blog Impact Ethics, the author of numerous superb articles using feminist … Continue reading →

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