Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Future for Diagnostics
As we look ahead, both current and future pandemics will require tests that give us more granular information about disease.
Genetics & Genomics
-
Read more: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Future for Diagnostics -
Read more: Equalizing the Genetic Lottery? Equalizing the Genetic Lottery?
Weaving together her work in genetics with Rawlsian political philosophy, Harden’s book is a must-read for anyone interested in inheritance or politics.
-
Read more: Will NIH Learn from Myriad when Settling Its mRNA Inventorship Dispute with Moderna? Will NIH Learn from Myriad when Settling Its mRNA Inventorship Dispute with Moderna?
The NIH, which funded much of Moderna’s research on the COVID-19 vaccine, should be assertive in exerting control over the results of this research.
-
Read more: Book Launch: Consumer Genetic Technologies: Ethical and Legal Considerations Book Launch: Consumer Genetic Technologies: Ethical and Legal Considerations
RecordingEvent Description In September 2021, Cambridge University Press published Consumer Genetic Technologies: Ethical and Legal Considerations. This volume, edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Nita A. Farahany, Henry T. Greely, and Carmel Shachar, stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2019 annual conference, which brought together leading experts to explore what ethical and regulatory safeguards should be implemented…
-
Read more: Book Talk: The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA Book Talk: The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
RecordingEvent Description When Chris Hansen, an ACLU lawyer, learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was: How can a corporation own what makes us who we are? Then he discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer—all…
-
Read more: The Civil Rights Challenge to Gene Patenting The Civil Rights Challenge to Gene Patenting
The ACLU mounted an unprecedented challenge the entire practice of gene patenting in America. And, against the odds, they won.
-
Read more: A Proposal for Localized Review to Safeguard Genetic Database Privacy A Proposal for Localized Review to Safeguard Genetic Database Privacy
We must take action to make genetic data sharing more secure and increase the public’s perception of its importance and safety.
-
Read more: Reclassification of Genetic Test Results: Potential Time Bombs in the Medical Record? Reclassification of Genetic Test Results: Potential Time Bombs in the Medical Record?
There is an increasing drumbeat of support for an ethical and legal duty for physicians to reinterpret genetic test results.
-
Read more: Transplant Genomics: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Transplant Genomics: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications
Advances in genetic and genomic studies have identified an increasing number of novel biomarkers of potential use in transplant-related care.
-
Read more: Online Terms of Use for Genealogy Websites – What’s in the Fine Print? Online Terms of Use for Genealogy Websites – What’s in the Fine Print?
Scientific research is now effectively prohibited by the majority of genealogy websites’ terms of use.
