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Inheritable Genetic Modification

The United Kingdom

Animal Technologies

The Strange Saga of "Bernann" McKinney

Geron, Exeter Affiliates Merge to Create Livestock Cloning Shop

The True Believer

Cloning Canine Patriotism?

Muslims not prepared to declare cloning 'halal'

Back From the Dead: What Dog Cloning Means for Our Human Future

Willy Wonka and the cloning factory

Dog Cloning and Intellectual Property

Toward Jurassic Park

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

Assisted Reproduction

Questions for Egg Donors

Washington Post: Inadequate supply of Viking sperm a crisis for successful single women

Breadline or egg line?

Questioning the Commerce of Conception

Baby Business Boom

Happy Birthday!

Reproductive Tourism a Growing Worry, Experts Say

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

Is social egg-freezing the right thing for you?

Sperm on the high seas

Questions for Egg Donors

South Korea Gov't to Compensate Egg Donors

Irish Head to Europe for Egg Donation

Breadline or egg line?

Questioning the Commerce of Conception

Baby Business Boom

Selling Your Eggs: No Big Deal?

Scientists: Egg Shortage Hurts Stem Cell Research

Is social egg-freezing the right thing for you?

The New Push for Eggs for Stem Cell Research in California

Genetic Selection

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

Kiwis consider sex selection

Is Sex Necessary for Reproduction?

Dutch Cabinet Crisis Averted... For Now

MPs Reject 'Saviour Sibling' Ban

Robert Winston on the UK's fertility bill

Embryo research: a source of hope or horror?

Sex selection: On sale here

Couples Could Win Right to Select Deaf Baby

Is it wrong to select a deaf embryo?

Hybrids & Chimeras

Scientists Find Hybrid Embryos Easy to Make

UK's Prime Minister Brown vs. scientists

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

South Korean Parliament Passes Law Banning Type Of Cloning, Broadening Embryonic Stem Cell Research

British Lawmakers Allow Hybrid Human-Animal Embryos

Robert Winston on the UK's fertility bill

Embryo research: a source of hope or horror?

Cloning Alternative May Help Save White Rhino

First British Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos Created by Scientists

Facts on the Ground

Inheritable Genetic Modification

Happy Birthday!

Germline Modification Carries Risk of Major Social Harm

Center for American Progress on GM Embryos

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

Crossing An Ethical Boundary

US group questions human embryo research, calls for rules

U.S. Researchers Create Genetically Modified Human Embryo

Media Coverage of Genetically Modified Embryos

Engineering by Scientists on Embryo Stirs Criticism

Genetically modified human embryo stirs criticism

Medical Gene Transfer

How to Be Popular during the Olympics: Be H. Lee Sweeney, Gene Doping Expert

How "Gene Doping" Could Create Enhanced Olympians

Finding the Golden Genes

Gene Doping Hits the Headlines

German TV Documentary Suggests Genetic Doping is Possible in China

Gene Therapy to Treat Cancer for First Time

Gene Fears by Doping Body

Protecting research subjects from a broken system

Eight Years after Jesse’s Death, Are Human Research Subjects Any Safer?

The Future: Think performance enhancers are a problem now?

Reproductive Cloning

The Strange Saga of "Bernann" McKinney

Is It Time to Give Up on Therapeutic Cloning? A Q&A with Ian Wilmut

Muslims not prepared to declare cloning 'halal'

Loophole in Embryology Bill could allow cloning without new legislation

Willy Wonka and the cloning factory

Dog Cloning and Intellectual Property

Toward Jurassic Park

Company offers to clone dogs of highest bidders in auction

Cloning Man's Best Friend: How Far Would You Go to Keep Fido?

Commercial dog cloning is more than just cute puppies

Research Cloning

Discover magazine sets a new bar for puffery

Dolly's Creator Moves Away from Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells

Disgraced Clone Expert Barred from Work

Scientists: Egg Shortage Hurts Stem Cell Research

The True Believer

Is It Time to Give Up on Therapeutic Cloning? A Q&A with Ian Wilmut

Fame-courting biotech running short of cash

The New Push for Eggs for Stem Cell Research in California

Funds boost for cloning research

Australia expands stem cell research to cloning and reprogramming

Sequencing & Genomics

DNA Databases Run Amok

More From the Los Angeles Times on DNA Databases

What You Should Know Before You Spit Into That Test Tube

How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects?

The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics

Calif. Cracks Down on Genetic Testing Startups

Red Flags Over Consumer Genetics

Bush Signs Anti-Discrimination Bill [GINA]

GINA may encourage problematic direct-to-consumer gene tests

House Approves Genetic Test Law [MP3]

Now, They Go Abroad for Made-to-Order Son

Here, Blue Still Wins Over Pink

Public interest groups step up challenges to sex selection in India

[India] Gov't to review implementation of PCPNDT (Sex Selection) Act

Skewed birth ratios raise fears of social crisis in Vietnam

Scientist: Don't fight sex selection

India Baby Girl Deaths 'Increase'

Kiwis consider sex selection

NZ IVF parents may get gender choice

Sex selection: On sale here

Stem Cell Research

Stem Cell Research and the Presidential Candidates

Whither stem cell funding?

Dolly's Creator Moves Away from Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells

Disgraced Clone Expert Barred from Work

Scientists: Egg Shortage Hurts Stem Cell Research

The True Believer

Calif. State Senator Vows to Push Life-Sci Bill Without More Stem-Cell Amendments

Fame-courting biotech running short of cash

Digging Themselves a Hole

Stem cell lobbyists decide Sen. Sheila Kuehl isn't really craven, ignorant, mindless, and dumb

Questioning the Commerce of Conception

Happy Birthday!

More From the Los Angeles Times on DNA Databases

What You Should Know Before You Spit Into That Test Tube

How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects?

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

CGS Testifies at First US Congressional Hearing on Global Governance of Human Biotech

Summary of testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade

Is there an emerging international consensus on the proper uses of the new human genetic technologies? [PDF]

Center for Genetics and Society's Executive Director to Testify before Congress on International Governance of Human Biotechnologies

Scientists: Egg Shortage Hurts Stem Cell Research

Calif. State Senator Vows to Push Life-Sci Bill Without More Stem-Cell Amendments

Digging Themselves a Hole

Stem cell lobbyists decide Sen. Sheila Kuehl isn't really craven, ignorant, mindless, and dumb

Letter of support for SB 1565

The New Push for Eggs for Stem Cell Research in California

Calif. Cracks Down on Genetic Testing Startups

Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie

Nature on California's "Cronyism"

$271 Million for Research on Stem Cells in California

More From the Los Angeles Times on DNA Databases

New Jersey ends stem cell dreams

State Pulls Back on Stem Cell Funding

Egg shortage hits race to clone human stem cells: Researchers back bid to pay donors

Partisan fratricide over stem cells in Missouri?

New York considers paying women for eggs for stem cell research

Stem cell firm opening raises questions

Stem Cell and Cloning Confusion, Once Again

States Crack Down On Online Gene Tests

Inaccuracy and Histrionics in Louisiana

The United Kingdom

DNA Databases Run Amok

[United Kingdom] Brown delays embryo bill

Scientists Find Hybrid Embryos Easy to Make

IVF 30 Years On

Loophole in Embryology Bill could allow cloning without new legislation

Cloning the Dead

MPs Reject 'Saviour Sibling' Ban

UK's Prime Minister Brown vs. scientists

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

British Lawmakers Allow Hybrid Human-Animal Embryos

Other Countries

Now, They Go Abroad for Made-to-Order Son

South Korea Gov't to Compensate Egg Donors

DNA Databases Run Amok

Irish Head to Europe for Egg Donation

Here, Blue Still Wins Over Pink

[India] Gov't to review implementation of PCPNDT (Sex Selection) Act

Skewed birth ratios raise fears of social crisis in Vietnam

India Plans Regulations for Surrogate Motherhood

Scientist: Don't fight sex selection

Quebec Court Strikes Down Parts of Federal Anti-Cloning Law

Global Governance

Gene Doping Hits the Headlines

CGS Testifies at First US Congressional Hearing on Global Governance of Human Biotech

Athletes look to genetics to gain the edge

Sperm on the high seas

Summary of testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade

Is there an emerging international consensus on the proper uses of the new human genetic technologies? [PDF]

Center for Genetics and Society's Executive Director to Testify before Congress on International Governance of Human Biotechnologies

Gene Fears by Doping Body

Genetic Enhancement as Mutually Assured Destruction

Brave New World War

Patents & Other IP

Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie

Dog Cloning and Intellectual Property

Unseen Rise of ‘Body Shopping’

Another Bill to Reform the California Stem Cell Research Program

Elimination of conflicts of interest at stem cell institute target of bill

Are male eggs and female sperm on the horizon?

Stem-cell Firms Resisting Cash Lure

WARF and Thomson Go for Patents with New Stem Cell Developments

Google Wants to Track Your Medical History -- And Your Genome

A State Bill Passes, a Federal One Stalls

A "Post-Human" Future?

A Literal Reductionist?

Putting Makeup on a Pig

The Modified Man

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

Designing Babies [MP3]

Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

Immortality breakthrough! Read all about it!

Are We Headed for a Sci-Fi Dystopia?

Genomes of the Rich and Famous

Gene Map Becomes a Luxury Item

Willy Wonka and the cloning factory

So you think you own your body?

Are We Headed for a Sci-Fi Dystopia?

Making Waves, Practicing Wisdom

New Book Makes Dangerous Claim That Inequality Is Genetic

ColorLines Features Race and Biotech

The Rebirth of a Nation?

WWJD – What Would James (Cameron) Do?

Jesus Family Tomb Believed Found

Pap smears or Botox? Cosmetic makeovers and conflicts of interest

Goozner on the FDA and the Declaration of Helsinki

Unseen Rise of ‘Body Shopping’

States Crack Down On Online Gene Tests

Leading Scientists Tell Politicians to Stop Interfering Over Ethics of Embryo Research

Designing Babies [MP3]

Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

CGS debates libertarian bioethicist Ronald Green

Protecting research subjects from a broken system

Eight Years after Jesse’s Death, Are Human Research Subjects Any Safer?

Biopolitics, Parties & Pundits

Stem Cell Research and the Presidential Candidates

Partisan fratricide over stem cells in Missouri?

Dutch Cabinet Crisis Averted... For Now

UK's Prime Minister Brown vs. scientists

Leading Scientists Tell Politicians to Stop Interfering Over Ethics of Embryo Research

How to Break the Stem Cell Logjam

One gene, two genes; Red genes, blue genes

Doubts on ScienceDebate2008 from Nature

Are political leanings all in the genes?

Cloning Critics Split [PDF]

Biotech & Pharma

Discover magazine sets a new bar for puffery

Geron, Exeter Affiliates Merge to Create Livestock Cloning Shop

Whither stem cell funding?

The True Believer

Is It Time to Give Up on Therapeutic Cloning? A Q&A with Ian Wilmut

Fame-courting biotech running short of cash

The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics

Cloning Canine Patriotism?

Kleiner Perkins Makes Bet on Adult Stem Cells

Calif. Cracks Down on Genetic Testing Startups

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Interviews James Watson

Genetic Enhancement as Mutually Assured Destruction

Brave New World War

Beyond Bioethics

Center for Food Safety Takes Its Concerns to YouTube

ETC Group Report on Extreme Genetic Engineering

Quality-controlled embryos

CGS weighs in on federal stem cell policy

A Majoritarian Proposal for Governing Human Biotechnology

Washington Post on DNA Forensics

DNA Tests Offer Deeper Examination Of Accused

CGS debates libertarian bioethicist Ronald Green

Gene of the Week: the Ruthless Dictator Gene

The Religious Right: Pronatalist? Only if you are white.

2007 in Review: Eugenics: Remembered. Re-imagined. Revived?

When You Play With Dirt, You Get Dirty

Are Home Genome Tests a Step Away from Eugenics?

Watson's Dark Vision

James Watson Retires After Racial Remarks

Discover magazine sets a new bar for puffery

This Week in the News

Washington Post: Inadequate supply of Viking sperm a crisis for successful single women

Cloning Canine Patriotism?

In the News this Week

In the News this Week

Back From the Dead: What Dog Cloning Means for Our Human Future

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Interviews James Watson

Willy Wonka and the cloning factory

In the News this Week

The More Things Change...

Food from Cloned Animals

Poll: Public understands less about research cloning

Support for stem-cell study falls, poll shows

Spinning the Polls

The Trouble with Tissues

Do stem cells work as a wedge?

Animal and Pet Cloning Opinion Polls

Stem cell bond issue has narrow lead in poll

Calif. voters lean toward stem cell measure-pol

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

Conceiving the Future [PDF]

Couples Could Win Right to Select Deaf Baby

Is it wrong to select a deaf embryo?

Deaf demand right to designer deaf children

Vatican talks of 'eugenics culture’ after abortion of wrong twin

Disability Rights Advocates Recall US Eugenics in Washington Post Op-Ed

Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus

Quality-controlled embryos

Wanting Babies Like Themselves, Some Parents Choose Genetic Defects

Environmentalism

Synthetic Biology

ETC Group Report on Extreme Genetic Engineering

Calls for a Moratorium on Food from Cloned Animals

FoE Condemns Athletic "Gene Doping"

Posthuman Enough?

Too Clever Too Fast Too Happy

Bill McKibben in Conversation

Germline Warfare

Should rich and poor alike be free to sell their kidneys?

Prisoners and Clinical Trials

200 and Counting for the Innocence Project

Prisons: Rehabilitation or Repository?

Toward Fair Cures: Health Disparities and Stem Cell Research

The Future of Violence Against Women

Reproductive Justice for All

UNESCO Declarations, 1998-2005

UNESCO adopts Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights

Homo Genesis [PDF]

Conceiving the Future [PDF]

Female sperm and gay guinea pigs

Are male eggs and female sperm on the horizon?

Gay couple buys 'designer' sons from US

Can’t discard them as embryos, abort them as fetuses, or cast them out? Try hormone patches.

LGBT Community Discusses Reproductive and Genetic Technologies

Genetic Technologies and the LGBTQI Community: Myths and Facts

Ethical Issues in New Uses of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics

Gene of the Week: American Exceptionalism

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Interviews James Watson

Conceiving the Future [PDF]

Race-specific drugs: regulatory trends and public policy

Heart Drug's Racial Focus Proves a Liability Rather Than an Asset

House Approves Genetic Test Law [MP3]

Washington Post on DNA Forensics

Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities

US set to swell its criminal DNA database

Muslims not prepared to declare cloning 'halal'

Embryo Bill is Plank of Gordon Brown's Agenda

The Religious Right: Pronatalist? Only if you are white.

Stem-Cell Research

Vatican talks of 'eugenics culture’ after abortion of wrong twin

Embryos injected with animal cells should be given human status, UK bishops urge

Can’t discard them as embryos, abort them as fetuses, or cast them out? Try hormone patches.

WWJD – What Would James (Cameron) Do?

Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios [PDF]

National Council of Churches Adopts Policies on Human Biotechnology

Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Questions for Egg Donors

Breadline or egg line?

Questioning the Commerce of Conception

Selling Your Eggs: No Big Deal?

Public interest groups step up challenges to sex selection in India

Conceiving the Future [PDF]

Feminist scholars on eggs for cloning research

Burying the Lead

What makes surrogacy like military service?

India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood

About Generations Ahead

Ralph Brave, 1953-2007

History of the Center for Genetics and Society

Jobs and Internships

Staff areas of expertise

Staff and Fellows

Program on Gender, Justice, and Human Genetics [PDF]

Who We Are [PDF]

Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities

Michael J. Sandel

Beyond Bioethics

Genetics and Justice

Gender, Justice and the New Human Biotechnologies

Reception for Publication of "Stem Cells and Public Policy"

Gender, Justice and the New Human Biotechnologies

Re-Designing Humanity?

Human Plants, Human Harvest

Gender and Justice in the Gene Age [PDF]

Richard Hayes's Presentations & Talks

Summary of testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade

Presentation at the launch of "Beyond Bioethics" [video]

Opening Comments at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) consultation on Human Enhancement

Introduction to "The Next Four Years, the Biotech Agenda and the Human Future"

Inequality, Democracy and the New Human Biotechnologies

Towards an International Ethical, Social and Political Accord on Human Cloning and Human Species - Alteration

Interview with Richard Hayes by Casey Walker

Richard Hayes's Publications

Is there an emerging international consensus on the proper uses of the new human genetic technologies? [PDF]

Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

Cloning Concerns

Beyond the Embryo Fight

Genetic Differences

Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios [PDF]

A Majoritarian Proposal for Governing Human Biotechnology

Opinion: A truce in the stem cell wars?

Does the Senate vote on stem-cell research matter?

Richard Hayes in the News

The Modified Man

Cloning Critics Split [PDF]

Smarter than thou?

Assembly committee rejects ban on cloned pets [California]

Pet Clones Spur Call For Limits

Homo Respect-us: The creature genetic engineers fear most

Stem cell measure brings foes together

California Debates Whether to Become Stem Cell Heavyweight

Richard Hayes's Blog Posts

Richard Dawkins: Breed humans like cows, horses and dogs?

Marcy Darnovsky's Presentations & Talks

Designing Babies [MP3]

Interview with Marcy Darnovsky

Which Comes First: The Woman or the Egg?

Democratizing Biopolitics

Stem Cell Politics and Progressive Values

Liberty and Justice in the Gene Age

Democratic Control and the Public Interest in the Stem Cell Debate

Social Justice in the Gene Age: California’s Challenge [PDF]

Playing God: The Challenges of Human Biotechnology for Spiritual Progressives [PDF]

Reclaiming Morality

Marcy Darnovsky's Publications

Homo Genesis [PDF]

Germline Modification Carries Risk of Major Social Harm

Red Flags Over Consumer Genetics

Crossing An Ethical Boundary

Are We Headed for a Sci-Fi Dystopia?

Female sperm and gay guinea pigs

Stem-Cell Research

Stem-Cell Science Outruns Political Debate

Watson's Dark Vision

Nobel Notions and the Uses of Genetics

Marcy Darnovsky in the News

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

Egg shortage hits race to clone human stem cells: Researchers back bid to pay donors

Is Sex Necessary for Reproduction?

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

Company offers to clone dogs of highest bidders in auction

Cloning Man's Best Friend: How Far Would You Go to Keep Fido?

The Smiling Heretic

US group questions human embryo research, calls for rules

Engineering by Scientists on Embryo Stirs Criticism

Genetically modified human embryo stirs criticism

Marcy Darnovsky's Blog Posts

Questions for Egg Donors

Breadline or egg line?

Questioning the Commerce of Conception

Public interest groups step up challenges to sex selection in India

Cloning Canine Patriotism?

In the News this Week

Sperm on the high seas

Pap smears or Botox? Cosmetic makeovers and conflicts of interest

Willy Wonka and the cloning factory

Dog Cloning and Intellectual Property

Sujatha Jesudason's Presentations & Talks

Reproductive Justice: Voices from SisterSong [MP3]

Reproductive & Genetic Technologies [PDF]

Powerful Reproductive and Genetic Technologies in an Unjust World [PDF]

Gender, Justice and the New Human Biotechnologies [PDF]

Building Movements [PDF]

The Challenges of Sex Selection [PDF]

Sex Selection: The Old & New Challenges for Asian Women [PDF]

Sujatha Jesudason's Publications

Letter-to-the-editor: Groups' focus is safety of egg donors

The Future of Violence Against Women

Sex Selection [PDF]

Sujatha Jesudason in the News

Genetic Disorder

Genetic Testing + Abortion = ???

Parents Want Genetic Test for Disease to Choose Baby's Gender

Many Clinics Use Genetic Diagnosis to Choose Sex [offsite]

A Generation of Women Wiped Out? [PDF]

Your Choice: Boy or Girl?

Wealthy foreign couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

Center for Genetics and Society Identifies Two Eugenic Threats to Communities of Color

It's a Boy! We Made Sure of It

Debe prevalecer la bioética en investigación científica

Patricia Berne's Presentations & Talks

Patricia Berne's Publications

Patricia Berne in the News

Jamie D. Brooks's Presentations & Talks

Genetics and Justice

Genetics and Justice

New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies

Designer Genes and the Implications for Women of Color

Jamie D. Brooks's Publications

Looking for Donor Dads

Blaming Your Genes for Your Health Problems? Not so Fast.

Geneticizing Disease [PDF]

DNA Dieting? It was only a matter of time.....

Oprah on Renting Wombs in India: “It’s beautiful”

Everybody into the Pool

Jamie D. Brooks in the News

House Approves Genetic Test Law [MP3]

Emily Galpern's Presentations & Talks

Surviving Ourselves [PDF]

Targeting College Women for Egg "Donation" [PDF]

The Egg Trade [MP3]

New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies [PDF]

Genetics and Justice [PDF]

Emily Galpern's Publications

Beyond Embryo Politics

Eggs vs Ethics in the Stem Cell Debate

Emily Galpern in the News

The Egg Trade — Making Sense of the Market for Human Oocytes

New Battle Lines Are Drawn Over Egg Donation

Women's risk is issue in Missouri stem cell debate

Osagie Obasogie's Presentations & Talks

Prisons as BioRepositories: The Racial Impact of Using Prisoners in Clinical Trials [PDF]

New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies [PDF]

Strict Scrutiny and the FDA: A Model Form of Race Regulation or a Recipe for Disaster? [PDF]

Genetics & Justice: The Science, Policy, and Politics of the New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies [PDF]

Osagie Obasogie's Publications

Back From the Dead: What Dog Cloning Means for Our Human Future

Race-specific drugs: regulatory trends and public policy

Food from Cloned Animals

The Rebirth of a Nation?

Picking Nits or Learning Lessons?

Medical Exploitation

Gene Therapy Risky Business for Patients

Prisoners and Clinical Trials

Hypertension: What Oprah Doesn't Know

Osagie Obasogie in the News

Death in gene therapy trial raises questions about private IRBs

Mixing animal and human cells gets more exotic

Osagie Obasogie's Blog Posts

More From the Los Angeles Times on DNA Databases

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Interviews James Watson

Goozner on the FDA and the Declaration of Helsinki

Washington Post on DNA Forensics

Burying the Lead

Who’s Biting Who?: Headlines on white surrogate for Asian couple

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

File Under: What You Talkin’ Bout, Willis?

“Roots in a Test Tube”

The New Republic Asks Whether Baseball is Already Losing the Next Doping Battle

Jesse Reynolds's Presentations & Talks

Testimony: Stem Cell Research and Intellectual Property

Jesse Reynolds's Publications

How to Break the Stem Cell Logjam

New Book Makes Dangerous Claim That Inequality Is Genetic

Solution to One Prop. 71 Flaw

Undue Influence at the Stem Cell Institute

In-Home Genetic Tests Represent Risk

Google Wants to Track Your Medical History -- And Your Genome

Bigger than Dolly?

Stem Cell Gold Rush

State's stem-cell research needs independent oversight

Opinion: Learning from stem cell stumbles

Jesse Reynolds in the News

Calif. State Senator Vows to Push Life-Sci Bill Without More Stem-Cell Amendments

$271 Million for Research on Stem Cells in California

$227 million in grants going to build California stem cell labs

State Probes 6 Online DNA-Testing Firms

Identigene Offers Off-the-Shelf DNA Paternity Test

The Bullet Missed

California Plans for a $750 Million Biotech Bank

Shrink-Wrapped Genes

State Controller Calls for Audit Of Stem Cell Institute's Expenditures

Human Skin Cells Altered to Be Pluripotent

Jesse Reynolds's Blog Posts

Discover magazine sets a new bar for puffery

Stem Cell Research and the Presidential Candidates

This Week in the News

The Strange Saga of "Bernann" McKinney

Washington Post: Inadequate supply of Viking sperm a crisis for successful single women

DNA Databases Run Amok

Whither stem cell funding?

In the News this Week

Digging Themselves a Hole

Stem cell lobbyists decide Sen. Sheila Kuehl isn't really craven, ignorant, mindless, and dumb

Ralph Brave, 1953-2007

Ralph Brave Supplemental Bibliography

Stem-Cell Wonderland

Congratulations, it's a Viking!

Human Plants, Human Harvest

Maryland’s Stem-Cell Wars

James Watson Wants to Build a Better Human

Human beings, as currently constituted, are good enough

Germline Warfare

Discover magazine sets a new bar for puffery

Stem Cell Research and the Presidential Candidates

Questions for Egg Donors

This Week in the News

The Strange Saga of "Bernann" McKinney

Washington Post: Inadequate supply of Viking sperm a crisis for successful single women

DNA Databases Run Amok

Whither stem cell funding?

Breadline or egg line?

Questioning the Commerce of Conception

Center for Genetics and Society's Executive Director to Testify before Congress on International Governance of Human Biotechnologies

GINA may encourage problematic direct-to-consumer gene tests

Commercial dog cloning is more than just cute puppies

Public interest group criticizes creation of first genetically modified human embryo

California firm’s cloning results are disturbing; may violate state law

Public interest group calls for CIRM Chair Robert Klein and board member John Reed to step down

Cloning-based stem cell research should be "put on the back burner"

Sea change in cloning-based stem cell research shifts scientific and political debate

Monkey Cloning Raises Troubling Questions Unconnected to the Status of Embryos

Still Unnoticed: James Watson’s Eugenic Enthusiasms

CGS in the News

Calif. State Senator Vows to Push Life-Sci Bill Without More Stem-Cell Amendments

Experts Fear Potential Abuses of Genetic Screening

The Modified Man

Egg shortage hits race to clone human stem cells: Researchers back bid to pay donors

Is Sex Necessary for Reproduction?

UK Scientists to Combine Human, Animal Embryos

Company offers to clone dogs of highest bidders in auction

Cloning Man's Best Friend: How Far Would You Go to Keep Fido?

The Smiling Heretic

US group questions human embryo research, calls for rules

CGS Publications

Reports & Major Articles

Is there an emerging international consensus on the proper uses of the new human genetic technologies? [PDF]

Geneticizing Disease [PDF]

Assisted Reproductive Technologies [PDF]

Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios [PDF]

A Decade After Dolly [PDF]

The Basics: Stem Cells and Public Policy [PDF]

The California Stem Cell Program at One Year: A Progress Report [PDF]

Sex Selection [PDF]

Gender and Justice in the Gene Age [PDF]

Human Rights in a Post-Human Future [PDF]

Op-eds & Commentary

Back From the Dead: What Dog Cloning Means for Our Human Future

Homo Genesis [PDF]

Germline Modification Carries Risk of Major Social Harm

Race-specific drugs: regulatory trends and public policy

Red Flags Over Consumer Genetics

Crossing An Ethical Boundary

Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

How to Break the Stem Cell Logjam

Are We Headed for a Sci-Fi Dystopia?

Female sperm and gay guinea pigs

Talks & Testimonies

Summary of testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade

Surviving Ourselves [PDF]

Targeting College Women for Egg "Donation" [PDF]

Prisons as BioRepositories: The Racial Impact of Using Prisoners in Clinical Trials [PDF]

New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies [PDF]

Presentation at the launch of "Beyond Bioethics" [video]

Interview with Marcy Darnovsky

Genetics and Justice [PDF]

Which Comes First: The Woman or the Egg?

Democratizing Biopolitics

House Approves Genetic Test Law [MP3]

Designing Babies [MP3]

Reproductive Justice: Voices from SisterSong [MP3]

The Egg Trade [MP3]

Presentation at the launch of "Beyond Bioethics" [video]

Many Clinics Use Genetic Diagnosis to Choose Sex [offsite]

Interview with Marcy Darnovsky by the Women's Bioethics Project [MP3]

Stem Cell Research Bill [MP3]

Interview with Marcy Darnovsky and James Hughes

Stem Cell Initiative [MP3]

College-age Women, Donor Eggs, and Assisted Reproduction [PDF]

Program on Gender, Justice, and Human Genetics [PDF]

Women’s Eggs and Stem Cell Research [PDF]

Reframing the Politics of Stem Cell Research [PDF]

New Forms of Sex Selection [PDF]

Who We Are [PDF]

Stem Cell Research in California: Lessons Learned [PDF]

2007 Report on Activities [PDF]

2006 Annual Report [PDF]

2005 Annual Report [PDF]

2004 Annual Report [PDF]

2003 Annual Report [PDF]

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CGS Testifies at First US Congressional Hearing on Global Governance of Human Biotech

New Dog Cloning Companies; Old Tricks

Stem cell Roundup

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

Disgraced Stem Cell Researcher Turns to Dog Cloning for Cash

Red Flags Over Consumer Genetics

Congressional Hearing on International Governance of Human Biotechnologies

Race-specific Drugs: Regulatory Trends and Public Policy

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

Other News and Views

U.S. Researchers Create Genetically Modified Human Embryo

U.S. set to swell its criminal DNA database

So you think you own your body?

Sex selection: On sale here

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

Other News and Views

Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.

CGS on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation

Are We Headed for a Sci-Fi Dystopia?

How to Break the Stem Cell Logjam

The Many Hats of Robert Klein

Child Abuse: UK Police Want Genes of 5-Year-Old "Future Criminals"

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

Other News and Views

Female Sperm and Gay Guinea Pigs

Genomes of the Rich and Famous

PhRMA and BIO Self-Image: Downtrodden and Besieged

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

More Media Coverage of Surrogacy Outsourcing

Looking for Donor Dads

Cloning, Children, and Consent

California Stem Cell Research Program Update

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

February 7, 2008

Please welcome... Generations Ahead

A new path for stem cell research, without Holy Grails

New Book Makes Dangerous Claim That Inequality Is Genetic

Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities

Making Waves, Practicing Wisdom

CGS News: 2007 Report on Activities

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

Other News and Views

December 21, 2007

2007 in Review: Reprogramming the Stem Cell Debate

2007 in Review: Googling Your Genes

2007 in Review: Scientific Racism Redux

2007 in Review: Controversy Escalates at California Stem Cell Program

2007 in Review: The Baby Business Makes News

2007 in Review: Eugenics: Remembered. Re-imagined. Revived?

CGS Event: Shannon Brownlee on Overtreated

Book Review: Richard Hayes on Babies by Design and Enhancing Evolution

New from CGS: A Reproductive Justice Framework for Assisted Reproduction

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

November 29, 2007

Beyond the Embryo Fight

Stem-Cell Science Outruns Political Debate

Undue Influence at the Stem Cell Institute

Human Cloning Isn’t Monkey Business

Watson's Dark Vision

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

October 25, 2007

James Watson's Legacy

Nobel Notions and the Uses of Genetics

In-Home Genetic Tests Represent Risk

Food from Cloned Animals

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

Other News and Views

September 26, 2007

The New CGS Website

Google Wants to Track Your Medical History – And Your Genome

Medical Exploitation

Special Focus: Lessons of the Recent Gene Therapy Death

The Rebirth of a Nation?

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

August 29, 2007

Death in Gene Therapy Experiment Rocks Field

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

Other News and Views

Reflections on Repro-Genetics

Do Two Friedman Units Equal One Okarma?

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

CGS in the News

Other News and Views

Bigger than Dolly?

Synthetic Biology

Prisoners and Clinical Trials

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

Hypertension: What Oprah Doesn't Know

Experts Slam UK Decision to Allow Human-Animal Embryos, Relax Rules

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

The Case Against Perfection: New Book by Noted Scholar

First U.S. Public Funding of Research Cloning Tainted by Scandal and Questions

California Stem Cell Update: Internal Power Struggles and Pending Legislation

House of Representatives Passes Ban on Genetic Discrimination

Federal Bill to Ban Patents on Human Genes Introduced

The Latest from Biopolitical Times

February 28, 2007

Researchers Push for Looser Rules on Procuring Women's Eggs

UK Campaign to Stop Genetically Modified Human Embryos

Our Biopolitical Future: Four Scenarios

Bill to End Human Gene Patents Introduced in House

California Stem Cell Update

The Latest From Biopolitical Times

January 26, 2007

Important Changes in UK Law on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies

Stem Cell Research in the US

National Council of Churches Adopts Policies on Human Biotechnology

The Latest From Biopolitical Times

December 14, 2006

Year in Review: Public secrets of the assisted reproduction industry (Part 1 of 5)

Year in Review: Race and medicine: Bedfellows again? (Part 2 of 5)

Year in Review: Stem cell politics: Good, bad, ugly (Part 3 of 5)

Year in Review: Research cloning: Next front in the stem cell wars? (Part 4 of 5)

Year in Review: New policies, more controversy on eggs for research (Part 5 of 5)

California's Stem Cell Research Program: An Update

The Latest From Biopolitical Times

November 15, 2006

Announcing the CGS Blog: Biopolitical Times

New Directions for Stem Cell Politics?

Beyond Bioethics: Groundbreaking Proposal on Human Biotech Policy

Call for Public Comments on UK Eggs-for-Research Policy

Toward Fair Cures: Health Disparities and Stem Cell Research

Eugenics Conference

October 20, 2006

California Victory: Standards and Safeguards on Eggs for Research

After the Hwang Scandal: Korean Women's Groups Hold International Conference

Stem Cells in Election Season: Surprisingly Low Profile

California Stem Cell Agency Moves to Dampen Expectations

Better Late than Never

Calls for a Moratorium on Food from Cloned Animals

Survey of Fertility Clinics: Selection Technologies Widespread in the U.S.

Showdown on Research Cloning in Australia

September 14, 2006

Stem Cells on Missouri's Ballot: Much Political Ado, Little Policy Meaning

Fake it Til You Make it

Stem Cells in California

After the vote and the veto: Making sense of stem cell politics

California stem cell research program: The governor's blank check

Book reviews: Stem cells, enhancement and cloning

When is a racial pharmacy bad medicine?

The Future of Bioethics in a Divided Democracy

A Decade After Dolly

CGS Authors Stem Cell Report Published by The Century Foundation

Progressive Values and Stem Cell Research at Take Back America

California Stem Cell Missteps Continue

California Bill on Eggs for Research Approved by Assembly Committee

Transhumanists Declare the “Right” to be Super-Human