Douglas Mortlock

I'm a teacher and scientist with interests in genetics, genomics, and gene editing. Check out my CRISPR blog.

[Nathan Letts, PhD 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @Sciguy999]

Russian ‘#crisprbabies' scientist has started editing genes in eggs from a deaf woman Rebrikov also told @Nature that he does not plan to implant embryos until he gets regulatory approval. https://t.co/UZVN1qQeVQ #ethics #genetherapy @ArthurCaplan @HankGreelyLSJU @pknoepfler

[Lluis Montoliu @LluisMontoliu]

Whether GJB2 or CCR5, attempting to edit these or other genes in human embryos for research purposes might be OK, permissions provided. But attempting to transfer these edited embryos into women is not. It was irresponsible in Nov 2018 and it is still now.
https://t.co/KNJm3b4NJn

[Paul Knoepfler @pknoepfler]

His email & statements make it seem like he's more focused on doing some high-profile heritable human CRISPR (it almost doesn't seem to matter what gene & for what purpose/disease...he's bouncing around a lot on that) than actually realistically trying to help human health.

[Dr. Jay Electronica @inthosegenespod]

This morning I published my first non-scientific publication and I named it after the first season of our show!

46 Chromosomes and a Mule: Falsely Romanticizing Our Complex Genetic Identities for Profit https://t.co/ULwym0sOLu via @TheRoot

Read and share the knowledge!

[Paul Knoepfler @pknoepfler]

Stanford clears 3 faculty members of ‘CRISPR babies’ involvement @sxbegle https://t.co/Rt8hOZNsJw Stanford got this right. Their researchers should have done more to alert community, but not necessarily so easy to do that #CRISPR

[sharon begley @sxbegle]

KOLs keep saying germline editing is a red line not to be crossed. I asked families affected by devastating inherited diseases how they feel about that: https://t.co/Hk1Ur8oz61

[Rob Stein @robsteinnews]

NPR Exclusive: Scientists use CRISPR to treat US patients for the first time, NPR has learned.
https://t.co/Vm1uTb0I6v

[Douglas Mortlock @Doug_Mortlock]

@HankGreelyLSJU @CaulfieldTim Comic by @drewtoothpaste

[Desktop Genetics @DesktopGenetics]

To investigate whether and how #CRISPR-Cas9 on-target and off-target activities are affected by chromatin in #eukaryotic cells, researchers at @SNUnow developed DIG-seq: an off-target profiling method using #chromatin DNA:
https://t.co/erNo9hrysL

[Hank Greely @HankGreelyLSJU]

2/ Excellent piece otherwise

[Hank Greely @HankGreelyLSJU]

@carlzimmer @antonioregalado @ZacharyBrennan @DrMJoyner @NIHDirector @RogerPielkeJr @matthewherper @sxbegle The FDA ban does NOT apply to in vitro work. The embryo isn’t the subject receiving the drug, it’s the drug and the woman is the “patient” to whom an unapproved new drug is being distributed. Research funding ban (Dickey/Wicker)applies to both with possible therapeutic exception

[Lluis Montoliu @LluisMontoliu]

Chinese authorities have eventually reacted against Dr. He Jiankui —> Dr. He appeared to have “blatantly violated China’s relevant laws and regulations” and broken “the bottom line of morality and ethics that the academic community adheres to” via @nytimes https://t.co/9qdZ8IWPvl

[Antonio Regalado @antonioregalado]

BREAKING: Any more babies out there? Big question at end of #geneeditsummit in HK

NEW==> Jiankui He registered a *second* study on PCSK9 (low heart disease risk)

Says only involves embryo (no transfer).but who knows.

H/t @erikwestin for inspiration

https://t.co/4gG5dE1kss

[Douglas Mortlock @Doug_Mortlock]

@CohenProf @SGottliebFDA @US_FDA @BioCentury Also agree .

[I. Glenn Cohen @CohenProf]

I am a big @SGottliebFDA fan and think he is doing a great job @US_FDA(easily the Trump admin all-star)but I do take issue with some of what he told @BioCentury about the China #GeneEditing debacle. My take on our blog https://t.co/AkVcDyab2H maybe he was taken out of context

[Nanibaa' Garrison @NanibaaGarrison]

Check our the live webcast today. Yours truly will be included in this lineup. #GenomicEquity

[Alice B. Popejoy, PhD @AlicePopejoy]

Fantastic speaker line-up at the Law, Genomic Medicine, & Health Equity conference in Nashville, TN this morning! I'll be live Tweeting key points from each of them throughout the day. #GenomicEquity

[Consuelo H. Wilkins @DrCHWilkins]

Our Law, Genomics and Health Equity conf is today. Not too late to join us @MeharryMedical or via web https://t.co/XlCXevYWH8 #GenomicEquity