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Genetic Testing
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The Faculty Lounge
Germany Allows Embryo Screening For Genetic Defects
Last week, the Federal Supreme Court in Leipzig ruled in support of a Berlin gynecologist who had screened embryos created during IVF for genetic defects prior to implanting them. This…
Alabama Employment Law Report
GENETIC INFORMATION NONDISCRIMINATION ACT (GINA) EFFECTIVE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
Congress's latest employment law becomes effective on Saturday, November 21, 2009. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) is designed to ban the misuse of genetic testing in the workplace. GINA…
Food Safety News
Genetic Testing
Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) PFGE was developed in 1984 and has since become the gold standard for bacterial subtyping. PFGE is the primary subtyping method used by PulseNet, a network…
Labor Law Prof Blog
GINA and DNA Testing in Baseball
The New York Times is reporting on Major League Baseball's use of DNA testing on Latin American prospects. Apparently, the majority of testing is related to confirming prospects' ages; many…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Fertility Institute Retracts “Designer Baby” Pitch
Triage (Chicago Tribune): Designer baby plan nixed for now by fertility clinic, by Judith Graham:The fertility clinic operator who grabbed headlineswith his promise to help parents create “designer babies” has…
Health Industry Washington Watch
MedCAC Meeting on Genetic Tests (May 6, 2009)
On May 6, 2009, MedCAC is meeting to focus on the desirable characteristics of evidence needed to evaluate screening genetic tests for Medicare coverage.
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Practices at Fertility Institute Raise Ethical Questions About “Designer Babies”
CBS News: "Designer Babies" Ethical?: For years, reproductive specialists have been helping people become parents, even enabling them to choose the sex of their baby. One fertility doctor is taking…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Kirsten Smolensky on Creating Children with Disabilities — Plus Responses
Kirsten Rabe Smolensky (University of Arizona) - Creating Children with Disabilities: Parental Tort Liability for Preimplantation Genetic Interventions:Usingpreimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), parents can screen embryos forgenetic traits such as deafness…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Student Scholarship: Modern Genetic Testing
Dov Fox (Yale Law School) has posted Reproduction Law in International Perspectives on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The word "eugenics" derives from the Greek words eu (good) and gen(relating…
Health Industry Washington Watch
MedCAC Meeting on Genetic Testing
CMS has announced that the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) will meet February 25, 2009 to focus on the requirements for evidence to determine if diagnostic use…