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Welcome to E.merge–

E.Merge is a community-based project, bringing together people who are curious, compelled and concerned about how emerging genetic and biological technologies impact human lives, relationships, and environments. It is meant as a forum for exposing and confronting the unique social, ethical, and political questions that these technologies bring about from an emerging generational perspective.

While advances in bioscience and technology represent some of humankind’s greatest achievements, new capabilities in areas like genetics, reproductive tech, and bioengineering, to name a few, have led us to the most challenging questions of our time:

  • What would it mean to live in a world where people could genetically “design” their future children?
  • How do we oversee a multi-billion dollar reproductive tech industry that pays women huge sums for their eggs, enables us to choose the sex of our children, and hires women overseas to carry babies for paying clients?
  • What are the ramifications of releasing synthetic bio-organisms into our ecosystems?
  • How does the privacy landscape change when you can publish your genome on the web for insurers, credit card companies, or anyone else to see?

The list goes on…

E.Merge combines people, media, current events, writing, and discussion forums, in order to foster dialogue, which, we hope, does not end in the comment threads. E.Merge connects students and other emerging leaders with established bioethicists, social justice advocates, authors, and scholars who are already in positions of influence working toward a socially-just technological future.  The site hopes to capture emerging voices as they weigh in on how genetic and biological technologies should be used, developed, regulated, promoted, or outlawed.

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Enjoy looking through the site.  But don’t just browse … Join the conversation!

Biologues to view or submit a blog commentary.

E.merge:DBJ (Digital Bioethics Journal) to view the featured submission topic and guest editor.

Raise Questions to read responses and weigh in on this month’s bioethical mind-bender.

Be CANDID. Raise QUESTIONS. Be HEARD. E.MERGE.