By The Petrie-Flom Center We’re pleased to announce a new collaboration with the American College of Medical Genetics and its journal, Genetics in Medicine (under the Nature umbrella). We’ll be highlighting medico-legal articles, podcasts, and the like from GIM, and in some cases, offering blog-only commentary from GIM authors. Stay tuned, but for now, take…
In case you missed it live on Monday evening, video from the Petrie-Flom Center’s event “Gene Patenting, the Supreme Court’s Myriad Decision, and the Future of Biotechnology” (co-sponsored by the Broad Institute) is now available here. 09/27/13 UPDATE: Our intern Fatima Mirza also wrote up this summary: At this event, a distinguished panel of law and…
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By Michael Young As debates surrounding genetic patent rights begin to settle, new questions and disputes have started to emerge around insurance coverage for genetic testing. For the first time, a U.S. health insurance provider (Cigna) has decided to require evaluation by an American Board of Medical Genetics or American Board of Genetic Counseling certified…
By Arthur Caplan Bill of Health contributor Art Caplan has a new opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In “Genetically Modified Food: Good, Bad, Ugly,” Caplan argues for the unrealized promise of GMOs: […] commercial farming of oranges and grapefruit is in dire peril from an insect-borne bacteria that causes a disease known…
By The Petrie-Flom Center We’re pleased to announce that we’ll now be collaborating with the Genomics Law Report, which provides “news and analysis from the intersection of genomics, personalized medicine and the law,” to bring you more expert content in these areas. You might recall a few cross-posts from GLR in the past, but these…
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By Dov Fox So asks medical historian Nathaniel Comfort in today’s Scientific America, echoing Ross Douthat’s New York Times inquiry into Eugenics, Past and Future. Comfort and Douthat are skeptical of the view, articulated by an emerging class of academics, that individual parents should use reproductive technologies to select or enhance certain genetic traits in their children. “Hitler gave eugenics a bad…
Bill of Health contributor Dov Fox has a new op-ed at the Huffington Post on “junk” DNA and the future of genetic privacy in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling, in Maryland v. King, that police may collect DNA from people under arrest. Fox argues, The next great controversy over forensic DNA won’t have anything to…
