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Organization Type: National Institutions

Organization URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/   

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, collects, preserves, and makes available to the public information about health, medicine, and the biomedical sciences. To continue fulfilling this mission, NLM is collecting and archiving related Web content, which also serves to document the histories of health and medicine. For questions about our web archiving program contact us at nlmwebcollecting@nlm.nih.gov.

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Title: WHO Expert Panel Paves Way for Strong International Governance on Human Genome Editing

URL: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/19-03-2019-who-expert-panel-paves-way-for-strong-international-governance-on-human-genome-editing/

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Press release titled, "WHO expert panel paves way for strong international governance on human genome editing," published on the World Health Organization (WHO) website on March 19, 2019. The press release announces the agreement made by the WHO advisory committee on developing global standards for governance and oversight of human genome editing to work towards a strong international governance framework in this area.

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Title: Statement on NIH funding of research using gene-editing technologies in human embryos | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

URL: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/statement-nih-funding-research-using-gene-editing-technologies-human-embryos/

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Press release titled, "Statement on NIH funding of research using gene-editing technologies in human embryos," published on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website on April 28, 2015. The statement issued by NIH Director Francis S. Collins declared that the NIH would not fund any use of gene-editing technologies in human embryos.

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Title: Statement on Claim of First Gene-Edited Babies by Chinese Researcher

URL: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/statement-claim-first-gene-edited-babies-chinese-researcher/

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Press release titled, "Statement on Claim of First Gene-Edited Babies by Chinese Researcher," by Director Francis S. Collins published on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website on November 28, 2018. The statement reflects on the work of Dr. He Jiankui, which resulted in gene-edited babies, and re-states the NIH's official position against gene editing in human embryos.

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Title: NIH Support International Moratorium on Clinical Application of Germline Editing

URL: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-supports-international-moratorium-clinical-application-germline-editing/

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Press release titled, "NIH supports international moratorium on clinical application of germline editing," by Director Francis Collins on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website on March 13, 2019. The statement officially gives the NIH's support to the call on an international moratorium on the use of genetic editing to modify the human germline for clinical purposes.

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Title: Statement from the Department of Health and Human Services

URL: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2019/06/05/statement-from-the-department-of-health-and-human-services.html

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Press release titled, "Statement from the Department of Health and Human Services," published on the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website on June 5, 2019. The statement addresses the department's decision to terminate contracts with organizations that provided human fetal tissue from elective abortions to develop testing protocols, and announces the department had initiated a comprehensive review of all HHS research involving such tissue to ensure compliance with existing statutes and regulations.

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Title: UC Awarded third CRISPR Patent, Expanding it's Gene-Editing Portfolio

URL: https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/12/uc-awarded-third-crispr-patent-expanding-its-gene-editing-portfolio/

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Press release titled, "UC awarded third CRISPR patent, expanding its gene-editing portfolio," published on the University of California-Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) website on March 12, 2019. The press release announces the US Patent Office's decision to award the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA-targeting technology patent to the UC-Berkeley based team lead by Dr. Jennifer Doudna. Credit for this invention was disputed by a team at the Broad Institute lead by Eric Lander.

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Title: Academies' Consensus Study on Human Gene Editing Begins; First Data-Gathering Meeting Feb. 11-12, 2016

URL: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12082015

Collection: Bioethics web archive

Description: Published on The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine website on December 8, 2015, the announcement describes the formation of a committee for a study on the scientific underpinnings of human gene-editing technologies, their potential use in biomedical research and medicine -- including human germline editing -- and the clinical, ethical, legal, and social implications of their use.

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