#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Potential Corporate Uses of Polygenic Indexes, Certificates of Confidentiality, Non-Fungible Tokens for Organoids, Antimicrobial Resistance, Bioethicists Today, + Much More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-…

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We are thrilled to be working with Federica Lucivero and the Ada Lovelace Institute to develop and pilot tools that will support policymakers to anticipate the broader societal implications of emerging technologies.

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Certificates of Confidentiality and Mandatory Reporting - by Leslie Wolf, Natalie Ram, Elizabeth Letourneau | JAMA Pediatrics jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

US Tightens Rules on Risky Virus Research - A long-awaited new policy broadens the type of regulated viruses, bacteria, fungi and toxins, including those that could threaten crops and livestock | NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/05/07/sci…

What a Philippine court ruling means for transgenic Golden Rice, once hailed as a dietary breakthrough | Science - Plant engineered to counter a debilitating vitamin A deficiency in developing countries has faced fierce opposition | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Opinion | In Medicine, the Morally Unthinkable Too Easily Comes to Seem Normal - by Carl Elliott | The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/05/07/opi…

First Opinion: As livestock move around the country, so does H5N1. The U.S. needs real-time tracking of livestock movements - By Shweta Bansal and Colleen Webb statnews.com/2024/05/07/tra… via STAT

First Opinion: Measles is coming back. My sister Marcie isn’t - By Emmi Herman statnews.com/2024/05/07/mea… via STAT

WHO’s top scientist learned a hard lesson about H5N1 two decades ago: Stopping it takes more than biology statnews.com/2024/05/07/bir… via STAT

First Opinion: The United States must get value-based drug pricing right - By Jason Shafrin, Louis Garrison, and Melanie Whittington | STAT statnews.com/2024/05/06/uni…

An NIH Genetics Study Targets a Long-Standing Challenge: Diversity kffhealthnews.org/MTc2NjQ5Mw via @kffhealthnews

Future pandemics will have the same human causes as ancient outbreaks − lessons from anthropology can help prevent them theconversation.com/future-pandemi…

📢New from Michelle N. Meyer Nicholas Papageorge & colleagues
📰Potential corporate uses of polygenic indexes: Starting a conversation about the associated ethics and policy issues
#polygenicriskscore #PRS
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Corporate access to our #genetic information is becoming increasingly available.

In this AJHG Perspective, researchers stress the need for policy safeguards to address ethics concerns around collecting genetic data.
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Michelle N. Meyer Nicholas Papageorge

Bioethics Seminar, May 13, Noon EDT - Jennifer James, PhD, MSW, 'From Carceral Healthcare to Abolition Ethics: A Moral Obligation to Move Towards Justice'. Open to all. Lunch provided. Join in person: Feinstone Hall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Link for details: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethics-…

America’s IVF Failure: One out of every 50 babies born in the U.S. was conceived via IVF. Why is the industry so poorly regulated? | The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

First Opinion: Why isn’t there agreement on when women need to start getting mammograms? - By Barron Lerner | STAT statnews.com/2024/05/02/bre…

Texas bird flu virus case may be first mammal-to-human spread - STAT statnews.com/2024/05/03/bir…

TODAY, 6p: A Schindler's List Holocaust Survivor's Story in Her Own Words, A Recorded Speech by Halina Silber. Intro by her daughter Fran Silber Pruce & son Harry Silber | Holocaust Day of Remembrance Lecture. Open to all, Join in person or online: mailchi.mp/jhu/y61ihduuym…

How the world wastes hundreds of billions of meals yearly, in 3 charts - Vox vox.com/future-perfect…