As Hurricane Laura bears down on parts of Louisiana and Texas, officers are dealing with the challenge of evacuating and sheltering persons in the center of a pandemic. A current workshop examined how disaster preparedness teams have to adapt to new realities as hurricanes, wildfires, and other excessive climate situations […]
Day: September 5, 2020
Heritable Genome Editing Not Yet Ready to Be Tried Safely and Effectively in Humans – Initial Clinical Uses, If Permitted, Should Be Limited to Serious Single-Gene Diseases
Human embryos whose genomes have been edited must not be utilized to produce a being pregnant until eventually it is proven that precise genomic changes can be made reliably with out introducing undesired changes — a criterion that has not but been satisfied by any genome modifying technology, states a […]
Poem: Bring Back the Leaf
Edited by Dava Sobel They sent out a dove: it wobbled residence, wings slicked in a rainbow of oil, a sprig of tinsel snagged in its beak, a yard of fishing-line binding its ft. Carry again, provide again the leaf. They sent out an arctic fox: it plodded the bays […]