Are We Ready for Designer Babies? A Public Forum on Genome Editing
Date/Time
Date(s) - Thursday, July 12, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Biotech Without Borders
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Join us at Biotech Without Borders for a public forum around engineering the human genome. For 100 years we have been imagining it in science fiction, but we are now at the point where it may become everyday reality through new technologies such as CRISPR.
The Forum will begin with a brief talk/question & answer by Dr. Ellen Jorgensen about the newest developments in the area. Then we’ll run through some very real scenarios to explore the social, economic and moral implications of editing our own evolution.
Food and drink will be provided!
This event is held in collaboration with the Museum of Science in Boston, who developed the Forum content for their NSF grant “Building With Biology”.