Human Gene Editing is now a ready technology. The time of human genetic enhancement is NOW. Top experts meet at international summit to discuss:
Stream - LIVE
http://www.nationalacademies.org/gene-editing/Gene-Edit-Summit/index.htm
Video Archive of Day 1
http://www.nationalacademies.org/gene-editing/Gene-Edit-Summit/webcast/index.htm
Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have engineered changes to the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system that significantly cut down on "off-target" editing errors. The refined technique addresses one of the major technical issues in the use of genome editing.
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-scientists-key-crispr-cas9-genome-hurdle.html
>>57269295
I know this is the reason why LGBT communitty is so strong now, they can't have children and they going to buy it.
Welcome poors guys to get the worst children ever while richest have the better gens
Obama administration official triggered at not enough nogs and whores on stage.
>>57269469
NIH deputy director of science triggered at lack of vaginas on stage
>high officials in charge of science at NIH and state department care more about ratio of dick to vagina than merit
>>57269295
'Master race' is a term to induce fear.
Best genotype possible is more accurate.
How about 'White race'...
"We could develop a gene editing treatment treatment in a month" will FDA keep up? --CRISPR Therapeutics at #geneeditsummit
>>57269584
>Where are all the black single mother geneticists?
Maybe if these women stepped up and did groundbreaking research at the Broad Institute, they might be onstage instead of behind their twitter feeds. Jus saying
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/11/30/science.aad5227
>we demonstrate that “enhanced specificity” SpCas9 (eSpCas9) variants reduce off-target effects and maintain robust on-target cleavage. Thus, eSpCas9 could be broadly useful for genome editing applications requiring a high level of specificity.
>>57269295
Who is this semon demon?
>>57269295
>http://www.nationalacademies.org/gene-editing/Gene-Edit-Summit/index.htm
inb4 muh ethics
>>57271290
she deleted online presence thanks to creepy 4channers messaging her
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/02/why-human-gene-editing-must-not-be-stopped?CMP=share_btn_tw
Guardian article on why gene editing must not be stopped
Rest of today's events are all governmental regulation of human gene editing topics
1:30 p.m. Governance at the Institutional and National Level
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Moderator:
Pilar N. Ossorio, University of Wisconsin,Madison, and Morgridge Institute for Research
Speakers:
Jonathan Kimmelman, McGill University
Barbara J. Evans, University of Houston Law Center
Zhihong Xu, Peking University
Jennifer Merchant, Université Paris II
3 p.m. Governance at the International Level
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Moderator:
Indira Nath, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Speakers:
Gary Marchant, Arizona State University
Thomas Reiss, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research
Philip Campbell, Nature
4:30 p.m. International Perspectives
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Moderator:
Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, Gene Center Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
Speakers:
Fola Esan, Nigerian Academy of Science (Nigeria)
Bärbel Friedrich, Leopoldina — the German National Academy of Sciences (Germany)
Pierre Jouannet, Université Paris Descartes (France)
Ephrat Levy-Lahad, Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Keymanthri Moodley, Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Staffan Normark, Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
K. Vijay Raghavan, Government of India Department of Biotechnology (India)
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>>57272282
Yes, genetic disease is a necessary thing to have freedom or happiness right?
Some lives living in abject pain and dying before the age of 15 is surely necessary to have leisure.
>>57272713
its more like a status symbol of wealth
it used to be if a kid was born with severe deformities you just chucked that fucker off a cliff
RIP thread
What are your guys opinion on gene editing?
>>57269469
>>57269584
Why are they mad that they didn't become a scientist and decided to write tweets professionally?
>>57274776
Pretty nice stuff overall. My pepole once tried to edit the whole human gene pool. Today we are reaping the fruits of our failure.
Apart from that the only real argument against eugenics is our lack of understanding how genes work and how to influence them.
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>>57269584
Any female scientist that would qualify decided to drop out for a couple of years to have kids and fell behind male scientists who continued to produce work and stayed at the top of the field.
>>57275187
Oh, and lets not forgot that the female scientist was allowed to retire earlier while the males continued to work well past the normal legal limit giving them greater recognition.
>>57274776
Gene editing for humans will never happen in the west, because of shit like this
>>57269469
>>57269584
The second someone tries to genetically induce super-intelligence in humans, the leftists will never stop shrieking.
China is where the great genetics research happens. They have no moral qualms about making supermen. They might make deformed mutants or Khan Noonien Singh, but they might also make a superior humanity.
guys I figured it out, corn is behind 9/11!!!!
>>57269295
>ban or regulate
If years of "war on drugs", prohibition and illegal abortion should have thought us a single thing, it's that it's impossible to ban something if people want it badly enough.
Since this method can be used at home, with low costs and almost no equipment, banning it would only lead to a gigantic black market.
Imagine gangbangers getting their fixes of gorilla muscles in backyard shops.
plenty of genius women scientits. like cispr the thing why everyone is so hype was invented by a woman.
>>57269295
>mfw humans of 2080 are grey aliens
I am ready
>>57269469
>>57269584
>Women being mad at men obsoleting them.
Was this supposed to be news?
reminder
the public must not be allowed input
>>57278993
This is sad. Why would you not want to make people more intelligent?
>>57279165
They watched a scary Hollywood movie or TV show.
That's the place 95% of Americans get their views on technology.
>>57278993
thats the us and there are alot of biblebelters around. china is different
