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ELSIconversations debuts with a six-week series of themed one-hour networking discussions on ELSI research. Join us from 12:00-1:00 pm ET / 9:00-10:00 am PT starting Friday, February 26.   Ethics Practices for the Direct-to-Consumer Industry – REGISTER Moderator: Mildred Cho Emily Bullis & Anjali Shastri: A Prospectus on Ethical Issues in the Context of...

Feb 12, 2021  | 12:00 PM EST Click here to register. Genomics is being used in several distinct ways to understand and address the Covid-19 pandemic. Pathogen genomics investigates the genetics of the virus itself and enables identification and tracking of new variants, while host genomics investigates genomic properties in...

Eric Juengst, Ph.D. is Director of the UNC Center for Bioethics and Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his B.S. in Biology from the University of the South in 1978, and his Ph. D....

ELSI Friday Forum is a monthly one-hour seminar series featuring topics on ELSI research. Join us from 12:00-1:00 pm ET / 9:00-10:00 am PT on the second Friday of each month for talks and panels on a broad array of issues, explored through an ELSI lens. Please click here(link is external and opens in a new window) for more information and...

Human Nature Panel Discussion: Editing Along Ethical Boundaries — Oct 21, 2020 11:00 AM Please click here to view the Panel Discussion. Human Nature tells the story of the biggest tech revolution of the 21st century. A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks...

September 17, 2020, 11:00 am -12:00 pm EDT — Join us for a free webinar – Registration required — There is now evidence that approaches using medical history–based screening alone fail to identify most individuals with genetic diseases associated with preventable deaths from cancer and heart disease, most notably, hereditary...

Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have produced the first end-to-end DNA sequence of a human chromosome. The results, published in the journal Nature, show that generating a precise, base-by-base sequence of a human chromosome is now possible, and...

Thursday, April 30, from 8:00pm – 9:30pm. — Two of our colleagues, Laura Milko and Kate Saylor have organized a remote watch party of “The Gene: An Intimate History,” a major new four-hour documentary from Ken Burns and Barak Goodman, adapted from the award-winning book of the same name by...

15 – 16 June 2020. — We are pleased to invite you to join us for the ELSI Virtual Forum, an online meeting on June 15 and 16, 2020, being held in place of the 5th ELSI Congress, now scheduled for March 2021. The Forum will include eight keynote, plenary...

New date for virtual event to be announced soon! Please join us for a free viewing of the documentary film, Human Nature, and a live panel discussion. — From executive producer Dan Rather and director Adam Bolt, the co-writer and editor of the Oscar-winning film Inside Job, comes the story...