http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/ The Center for Genetics and Society works for thoughtful consideration, responsible uses, and effective governance of genetic, reproductive, and other biotechnologies. http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5316 <div class="text blurb">MEET the doctor who is making Scots' dreams of designing the perfect baby come true. </div> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5316 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5185 <div class="text blurb">A new website and series of short videos on the complex challenges of new reproductive and genetic technologies.</div> Wed, 05 May 2010 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5185 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5184 <div class="text blurb">Introducing the first web series for parents about technologies that could alter human nature.</div> Wed, 05 May 2010 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5184 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5087 <div class="text blurb">Environmentalists are in a position to play a critically important role in determining how powerful, emerging technologies are ultimately developed, used, and regulated.</div> http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5087 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5039 <div class="text blurb">Two new technologies may make inheritable genetic modification significantly more feasible.</div> Thu, 14 Jan 2010 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5039 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4966 <div class="text blurb">There has been a brief flurry of discussion about future separate species of humans.</div> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4966 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4927 <div class="text blurb">The researchers into radically novel techniques display an alarmingly casual attitude toward risks to the potential children born, the difficulties and dangers of obtaining the large numbers of the required women's eggs, and the potentially dire social consequences of human inheritable genetic modification.</div> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4927 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4914 <div class="text blurb">"It is tempting to think that bioengineering our children and ourselves for success in a competitive society is an exercise of freedom. But changing our nature to fit the world, rather than the other way around, is actually the deepest form of disempowerment."</div> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4914 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4903 <div class="text blurb">CGS's Marcy Darnovsky and researcher Shoukhrat Mitolipov debate the implications of a new study about mitochondrial DNA for inheritable genetic modification on this call-in radio show.</div> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4903 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4777 <div class="text blurb">Recent developments in cell reprogramming methods raise significant new ethical and social challenges.</div> Sun, 26 Jul 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4777 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4762 <div class="text blurb">Advances in laboratory-produced sperm--if perfected--could also be used for other purposes, including troubling ones.</div> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4762 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4706 <div class="text blurb">Altered primates bring inherited genetic modification closer to humans.</div> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4706 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4699 <div class="text blurb">American media coverage of genetically modified primates was remarkably thin, and few articles mentioned social and ethical implications</div> Fri, 29 May 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4699 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4695 <div class="text blurb">Scientists have created the first genetically modified monkeys that can pass their new genetic attributes to their offspring</div> Thu, 28 May 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4695 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4694 <div class="text blurb">The Center for Genetics and Society today said that the creation of a transgenic marmoset underlines the need for scientists and policy makers to reject human inheritable genetic modification.</div> Wed, 27 May 2009 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4694