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The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and the Royal Society of the UK have announced the formation of an expert group to develop a framework to guide scientists, clinicians and regulators in their use of human germline genome editing. According to the release, "… Read more

Videos of all sessions of the LawSeqSM conference are now available. This event brought together an eminent group of scientists, researchers, attorneys and clinicians on the campus of the University of Minnesota to grapple with gaps and areas of confusion in genomic law. The… Read more

Kate Brauman's day job is at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (IonE), a Consortium member. There, she is lead scientist for IonE's Global Water Assessment, which incorporates policy and economic approaches into water resource management. Recently, however, she's… Read more

While outbreaks of measles and Ebola are dominating the news, African swine fever (ASF) "has wiped out pork productions across China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and most recently, Cambodia, without signs of stopping," according to Popular Science. ASF has already claimed more than 1 million pigs in… Read more

Two major media outlets have run coverage of last week's LawSeqSM conference and webcast, held on the University of Minnesota campus. Science Magazine focused on the difficulty of accurately interpreting genomic variants, and the legal liability claims that could result. The… Read more

Rising measles infections in the US and the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) illustrate the difficulty of controlling outbreaks once they start. The spike in measles represents a major setback, since the vaccine was first introduced in 1963 and the Americas were declared… Read more

A new online resource, developed by experts in the Clinicial and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Department of Pediatrics, is now available to University of Minnesota clinical researchers, grant coordinators and others to help them save time when completing the… Read more

An article in Nature describes the need for more diversity in genomic research. As of 2018, 78% of data use in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were derived from people of European descent. Last November, the Consortium sponsored a conference, "Law, Genomic Medicine & Health… Read more

On April 3, Prof. Lisa Ikemoto, JD, LLM (UC Davis School of Law) gave a provocative lecture in which she described current uses of biohacking – bodily modification to enhance human capacity – and their implications for law, regulation and conceptions of what is human. She… Read more

The fourth annual University of Minnesota Research Ethics Conference, held on March 6, explored how big changes in rules and oversight are affecting researchers and research participants. Recordings of all sessions – including plenary talks by Carrie D. Wolinetz (… Read more