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| Welcome to the “Genetic Panopticon”by Jessica Cussins, Biopolitical TimesJune 5th, 2013In a forceful blow to the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can collect DNA from people who have been arrested – but who have not been convicted, and may never be. |
| Cloning for Stem Cells: Controversy, Againby Jessica Cussins, Biopolitical TimesMay 30th, 2013Errors have been found and acknowledged in the recent paper on the creation of stem cells through cloning – a reminder that questions about the utility and risks of research cloning go deeper than “careless” duplication of images. |
| Cancer Inc.by Jessica Cussins, Biopolitical TimesMay 28th, 2013Angelina Jolie’s widely discussed op-ed about her preventative double mastectomy glosses over the impact of one company’s patent on the “breast cancer genes” as well as alternative choices that are available to women who have mastectomies.
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| Cloning-Derived Stem Cells Raise Policy Questionsby Jessica Cussins, Biopolitical TimesMay 16th, 2013Yesterday’s announcement that stem cells have been derived from cloned human embryos set off a media flurry, but important questions about reproductive cloning and women’s health were not widely addressed. |
| Talking Biopolitics is Back!by Jessica Cussins, Biopolitical TimesMay 13th, 2013A series of live web-based conversations with cutting-edge thinkers on the social meaning of human biotechnologies will be kicking off next week. RSVP now to join the conversations!
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| Made-to-Order Embryos: You Want to Sell What?!by Jessica Cussins, Biopolitical TimesMay 2nd, 2013The fact that a fertility clinic can own and sell made-to-order embryos for profit raises novel concerns that should not be collapsed into predefined frameworks used to assess other assisted reproductive technologies.
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| Earth Day in Biopoliticsby Jessica Cussins, Biopolitical TimesApril 22nd, 2013In honor of Earth Day, let’s hope for a move away from “greenwashed” PR stunts and techno-fixes toward conservation, sustainability, and social responsibility. |
| Shifts in the Global Body Market: Access or Exploitation?by Jessica Cussins, Biopolitical TimesApril 1st, 2013PlanetHospital claims that new surrogacy regulations in India have ruined a “golden opportunity” and paints Mexico and Thailand as the surrogacy frontiers – where it happens to have business arrangements.
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Jessica Cussins graduated from UC Berkeley in May 2012,
earning her B.A. with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Peace and Conflict
Studies. She has experience working for a non-profit organization in the
Bay Area addressing the issue of access to scientific education in public
schools. She is interested in the intersection of biotechnologies with social
justice, specifically in how assisted reproductive technologies and personal
genomics/ biobanks 
