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De l’humain réparé à l’humain technicisé et augmenté : technologies reproductives, interfaces cérébrales, cellules souches/organoides … Quel humain pour demain ?
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Edecastex @elisabeth14.bsky.social · Jan 18
Comment l’humain se reproduira t-il en 2100 ? Fabrication de gamètes, pseudos-embryons, utérus artificiels partiels, choix d’embryons… L’état de la recherche, les implications sociales’et politiques.
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stemcells.bsky.social
Nucleus Genomics faces criticism as it and other firms promise embryo optimization despite unresolved scientific, ethical questions ipscell.com/2025/11/nucl... elective IVF #stemcells
Nucleus Genomics faces criticism as it and other firms promise embryo optimization despite unresolved scientific, ethical questions - The Niche
Stem cell biologist discusses how elective IVF firm Nucleus Genomics faces serious accusations including of plagiarism.
ipscell.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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hankgreely.bsky.social
Article in @nature.com on neuroprivacy, both from brain computer interfaces & consumer goods. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Quotes Nita Farahany, Marcello Ienca, & others.
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
elisabeth14.bsky.social
Pour une liberte du développement cognitif des enfants, à l’écart des technologies cérébrales #CCNE #Agencedelabiomedecine
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Pour une liberté du développement cognitif des enfants, à l’écart des neurotechnologies. - Anthropotechnie
Des technologies émergentes sont à l’aube de détecter, dans le cerveau, les bases biologiques de […]
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November 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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profsimonfisher.bsky.social
With sequencing of Hitler's DNA making headlines, time for a reminder: analysing a polygenic score from a dead historically-significant figure won't give new insights into that person's behaviour. In a brief paper last year, we used Beethoven's genome to directly illustrate the fallacies involved.🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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hankgreely.bsky.social
Long investigative piece in @wsj.com on human embryo editing firms by Emily Glazer, Katherine Long & Amy Dockser Marcus. www.wsj.com/tech/biotech... Like my quote on human embryo editing to make babies: “Responsible adults agree we can’t do it now because it’s unreasonably unsafe,” said Stanford
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
elisabeth14.bsky.social
Neurotechnologies:"Nous nous approchons de la possibilité de détecter la base de la pensée"Hervé Chneiweiss theconversation.com/neurotechnol...
Neurotechnologies : vivrons-nous tous dans la matrice ? Conversation avec Hervé Chneiweiss
L’Assemblée générale de l’Unesco doit signer une déclaration sur les neurotechnologies, le 7 novembre. L’occasion de faire le point sur leurs utilisations médicales et récréatives.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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emilymullin.bsky.social
Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, a new biotech startup called Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/startu...
A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos
Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of editing human embryos to make disease-free children.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
elisabeth14.bsky.social
Les études sur les jumeaux et sur les familles montrent que l’intelligence présente un taux d’héritabilité d’environ 50 %. Ce taux ne dit pas que l’intelligence est héritée à 50 %, mais que 50 % de ce qui fait varier l’intelligence est dû au génotype.
theconversation.com/lintelligenc...
L’intelligence peut-elle être expliquée par la génétique et l’épigénétique ?
Quelle est la part de l’environnement, en particulier social, de l’épigénétique et de la génétique dans les manifestations de l’intelligence (ou des intelligences) chez l’enfant et chez l’adulte ?
theconversation.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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emilymullin.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: Startup Cognixion is launching the first-of-its-kind clinical trial to use the Apple Vision Pro as a brain-computer interface to help severely paralyzed people communicate.

www.wired.com/story/this-s...
This Startup Wants to Put Its Brain-Computer Interface in the Apple Vision Pro
California-based Cognixion is launching a clinical trial to allow paralyzed patients with speech disorders the ability to communicate without an invasive brain implant.
www.wired.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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aregenberg.bsky.social
Scientists make most authentic kidney replicas so far: Lab-grown organoids reproduce some of a kidney’s internal structure and function | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Scientists make most authentic kidney replicas so far
Lab-grown organoids reproduce some of a kidney’s internal structure and function
www.science.org
September 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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emilymullin.bsky.social
EVs, solar panels, and now, brain-computer interfaces. In a new policy document, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in the same brain technology that Elon Musk's Neuralink is building. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/china-...
China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry
A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses.
www.wired.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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humanrights-fau.bsky.social
📣 Exciting Call Papers for The Journal of Human Rights/Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte: „New Technologies and Human Rights“. Submissions from various disciplines welcome. Read more here: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/08/08/c...
Call for Papers: New Technologies and Human Rights
for the Journal for Human Rights, edition 1/2026 How are AI, social media, and automated systems changing our society, and what do these developments mean for human rights? The Journal for Human…
www.humanrights.fau.eu
August 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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espaceethique.bsky.social
📘 [PUBLICATION] La Revue Française d’Éthique Appliquée #RFEA consacre sa dernière parution à une question vive et parfois controversée : peut-on « parler pour les autres ? » Faut-il toujours se taire quand on n’est pas « concerné·e » ? 👉 En savoir plus sur le numéro : bit.ly/RFEA16
June 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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profsimonfisher.bsky.social
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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hankgreely.bsky.social
This should be an excellent, and (we hope) important meeting. Join us!
sergiuppasca.bsky.social Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · Jul 8
Excited to announce that applications are open for the Asilomar meeting on The Ethical and Societal Implications of Neural Organoids, Assembloids, and Their Transplantation!

As the technologies & applications of 3D neural models evolve, a number of ethical and societal issues are emerging.
July 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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stemcells.bsky.social
Weekly regenerative reads: 14-day rule vs. 28-day rule for human embryos, virtual cells & Turing test, Prasad politics vs. science ipscell.com/2025/07/week... #stemcells #stemcell
Weekly reads: 14-day rule vs. 28-day rule, virtual cells & Turing test, Prasad politics - The Niche
Biologist discusses week's news in regenerative medicine including a proposal to change 14-day rule to a 28-day rule for human embryo growth.
ipscell.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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neuroethics.bsky.social
The #Neuroethics Essay Contest deadline has been extended to July 31, 2025. neuroethicsessaycontest.com/call/

Don't miss this opportunity to submit your academic, general audience or video essay at the intersections of the mind and #brain sciences, #ethics, and #law.
Call for Neuroethics Essays
The International Neuroethics Society (INS) and the International Youth Neuroscience Association (IYNA) are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the Neuroethics Essay Contest in 2025. Now in...
neuroethicsessaycontest.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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nature.com
The long-term goal is to grow human organs that can be harvested for transplantation

https://go.nature.com/3ST2BN7
Mice with human cells developed using ‘game-changing’ technique
Human cells injected into amniotic fluid find their way into fetal mouse organs.
go.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social
📢 New blog post!

@emmacave.bsky.social, Chair of the NCOB's working group on stem cell-based embryo models, reflects on our recent #policy roundtable and explores next steps for #SCBEM regulation in the UK.

Read it here:🔗➡️https://bit.ly/SCBEM-regulation-blog

#regulation #makingethicsmatter
June 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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antonioregalado.bsky.social
Coinbase CEO, net worth ~$10B, wants to start definitive embryo editing company in the US.

Making a gene-edit baby is prohibited in most of the world.

But the winds can change.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1...
Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong is ready to invest in CRISPR baby tech
The stigmatized idea could get a massive boost from “tech bros”—and some scientists are cheering them on.
www.technologyreview.com
June 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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garys79.bsky.social
An educated populace is a better electorate
May 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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nature.com
A baby boy with a devastating genetic disease is thriving after becoming the first known person to receive a bespoke, CRISPR therapy-for-one, designed to correct his specific disease-causing mutation

https://go.nature.com/4ml3ZW6
World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease
Nature - Treatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.
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May 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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piplettesmagazine.bsky.social
New article alert!

Ever met someone who looks exactly like you? Science says it’s more than a coincidence!

Read more on the science of look alikes in our latest piece, written by Silvia, PhD student in epigenetics🧬

www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/you-may...
You may have a twin and you don’t know it: the science of look-alikes
Perhaps someone has already told you that you look like someone else, but is it actually true? It is! Science suggests that there is someone in the world that looks like you and that even shares your ...
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May 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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jdevos.bsky.social
Four people with liver failure will be connected to an external organ from genetically modified pigs.
#XenoTransplant
Pig livers for people: US regulator greenlights first safety trial
Four people with liver failure will be connected to an external organ from genetically modified pigs.
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April 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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nytopinion.nytimes.com
“By giving parents the illusion of so much control,” Anna Louie Sussman writes, certain I.V.F. technologies “could lead to viewing embryos as a consumer product while overemphasizing the role of genetics in life outcomes.”

Read more from The Embryo Question, a series from Times Opinion:
Opinion | I.V.F., Gene Selection and Embryo Screening: Is This the Future of Making Babies?
Advances in genetic testing and artificial intelligence are changing what’s possible for those undergoing I.V.F. Are we ready for the future of fertility?
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM