Wednesday Web Watch for March 11, 2015
The risk, benefit and cost analysis generated by gene therapy is highlighted this week in an article by Meredith Knight, entitled Gene therapy dilemma: Would you tweak your child’s genes if it might prolong life but leave her deaf? Writing for Genetic Literacy Project, Knight discusses the various issues that come into play with the […]
Wednesday Web Watch for September 10, 2014
While there are still nuances to be ironed out, last year, the fundamental legal question regarding the right to patent human DNA was resolved. We lived through (and even wrote about) the myriad of Myriad court decisions, which culminated in the 2013 Supreme Court decision that DNA, as it exists in nature (as opposed to […]