You are invited to Join thGAP for critical attendance starting tomorrow
Tune in to the Royal Society in London March 7-9 and see you afterwards at the Hackteria Island!
Looking Ahead to the Third Human Genome Editing Summit
7-9 March 15:00 - 17:00 CET
and Looking Ahead to the Art of Repro Mutagenic Babies
March 9 18:00-19:00 CET
watch: Looking Ahead to the Third Human Genome Editing Summit
If you are not magically transported to a “2D bitmap topDown use your left right up and down arrows video conferencing dream world”, try reloading http://island.hackteria.org/ few times. Its a little glitchy but also way more fun for mashups.
The conversation is of course about internal bias of the summit, how the experts try to work with the WHO which has a more bio-conservative agenda. We are looking to see about inclusion of art directors for this human genome redesign project instead of all these ‘health’ meets enhancement donor aesthetics. Is there a species commons instead of simple Ford vrs Mercedes mutant designer babies? And, of course, does GMO human gonad tinkering just cause cancer and other sorts of metabolic havoc to our future genomes with no way back, no way to track the novel disinformation/disease? Beyond off-target germline side effects presenting as pollution ‘of invisible origin’, are the new transgenic semi-humans, are they free living admix generational alteration? Or are they investment portfolios intended to perform extremophile functions?
Having fun watching the sciBroes&Sis and prepare for our vommentary!
Rachel already been mentioned in the Q&A… let’s think of some comments / questions to drop in there too!
here is the link again: https://2022humangenomeeditingsummit.royalsociety.org/
They keep talking about how broad social dialogue and “consensus” has to be reached BEFORE heading on with opening regulations for human germline hacking.
I wonder how long it will take to get us on that symbolic graph!
I think we had some fun times and an interesting alternative parallel events for this!
Now i checked all the recorded videos, and have continued discussions together with Adam during our co-isolation session in RandeLab.
Thanks all for joining!
In the meantime, me and Adam have written to the Royal Society on getting involved in next years summit. Let’s see how they respond…
This will be a fun ride, and let’s do something interesting next year in London!
We should search for some local collaborators for a parallel activity… Asa Calow? Nicola Triscott? Heath Bunting?
