Gene Editing: A New Legal Frontier

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Gene editing technology gives us the ability to change our DNA - removing, adding and replacing parts of our genetic code. These technologies have been emerging and improving for some decades, but since the development of CRISPR-based editing technologies, our capacity to edit our DNA has become both more accessible, more accurate and consequently, more powerful. Gene editing could be used to prevent genetic diseases but also alter traits like height and intelligence, presenting both legal and ethical issues.
A lecture by Imogen Goold recorded on 17 April 2023 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.
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@jeanseigfried9339 Жыл бұрын

My nickname is Jean, and I was in a band where the lead guitarist would exclaim " HI Jean! That's a clean joke! Get it Hygiene?"

@JJONNYREPP Жыл бұрын

Gene Editing: A New Legal Frontier 24.4.23 2129pm these rendered and/or edited people are not traumatized, then, by their test tube origination...?

@Dabes88 Жыл бұрын

@@JJONNYREPP nah mutants

@Dabes88 Жыл бұрын

Light and dark yo man want bits?

@victoriab8186 Жыл бұрын

things that 'afflict peoples' lives badly': a useful phrase. I found it rather telling that Janet Radcliffe Richards' quote only imagined the ethics of eradicating disability from the perspective of a non-disabled person - 'most people would think it better *for themselves* if their disabled *friends and relations* were not disabled'. This sentence implies that these 'most people' she is talking about are not disabled - and therefore that the only voices she considers to matter in this debate are non-disabled people who happen to know a disabled person. Furthermore, the phrase 'think it better for themselves' does not consider what might be better for disabled people. This is a language which is making a marginalised group's voices invisible, hiding behind the language of the majority, of 'most people', in order to advocate for a position which is said to benefit this majority, disregarding the wishes or potential harms to said minority. To me, this feels like very dangerous rhetoric, with clear eugenicist resonances.

@JJONNYREPP Жыл бұрын

Gene Editing: A New Legal Frontier 24.4.23 2122pm maybe render the technology or the environments that cause illness as opposed to making malleable the alleged so-called carcinogenic mutation ie: humanity. seems you use the alleviating of illness and disability as an excuse to eff about with a vast array of individual liberties, personality traits... depending on the current of the day you could erase the need for male/female reproduction cycles, grow babies in nought but a greenhouse full of test tubes (as laughable as it sounds), breed only passive and compliant individuals... it has all been posited before. and no one heeded that alleged dystopian b.s, either.... you have no concept of life if you feel it is cheap enough to mess about with in such a fashion....

@Stupidityindex Жыл бұрын

See a video lecture 'White Trash"

@dennisguilder1 Жыл бұрын

Can this make adults taller?

@cypressbutane4575 Жыл бұрын

I have a question and i can't afford legal representation... I sold my full DNA sequence to a corp which I will not name at this time... and they made a copy of me in a virtual environment. They have since used that copy to anticipate my moves in the real world... I did not know they would use it for this purpose, and they have been manipulating things in my life to try to... hang on there's someone ... at the... door... What was I saying. That I want to recommend everyone sell their DNA sequence to pod-peeple corp and the benefits will be great for all! Don't sleep on this deal sell your code today you will thank you for it!

@jeanseigfried9339 Жыл бұрын

A little paranoia doesn't mean there's no one out to get you!"

@jeanseigfried9339 Жыл бұрын

I guess it just sucks to be you, like my stepson says!

@Stupidityindex Жыл бұрын

I have a re-occurring dream where I am about to travel to another world through some sort of stargate device. I end up next to some dollop on a plate, at an extraterrestrial Shushi-bar.