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New Publications
Avoiding liability and other legal land mines in the evolving genomics landscape
Clayton, Tritell, and Thorogood consider the legal implications of rapid changes in scientific knowledge and the cultural and political environment for clinicians and researchers.
Genes drive organisms and slippery slopes
Resnik and colleagues develop and critique a slippery slope argument and find it does not provide compelling reasons for banning the use of gene drive organisms in wild pest populations, but does raise important ethical and policy issues.
Playing God? Media coverage of CRISPR in the United States
Stapleton and Torres Yabar analyze U.S. and television news sources and conclude that the media have not established the salience of CRISPR as a policy issue.