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America: Human and Animal Cloning
America: Reproductive and Research Cloning
America: Human and Animal Cloning
America: Human and Animal Cloning
America: Reproductive and Research Cloning
America: Human and Animal Cloning
United Kingdom: Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos
America: Reproductive and Research Cloning
United Kingdom: Human-Animal Hybrids
America: Human and Animal Cloning
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Illinois Bill Could Allow State To Collect DNA From Those Presumed Innocent, Marking Nationwide Shift
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Stem Cell Research
Patents & Other IP
Media Coverage
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights
Technologies
Animal Technologies
Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the 'Spider-Goats'
Dog Cloning Infomercial on TV
New Buzz around Biological Hazards
Hwang Clones Coyotes, Scores Headlines
Disgraced S Korean Cloner Hwang Back with Coyote Claim
Which Came First the Chicken or the Dinosaur?...Think Again
Of Dogs, Clones and Rick Perry
Cats as Experimental Animals for Human Diseases
Yet Another Idea for Using Biotechnology to Rescue Endangered Species
New GeneWatch Issue: Bioengineering Animals
Assisted Reproduction
Flap over Designer Sperm in India
Boy or Girl? Why Dads Want Sons, but Moms Want Daughters.
'Three-Person IVF' Technique Moves Closer
Study Finds Doctors Shouldn’t Transfer 3 or More Embryos into Women Having IVF at Any Age
Make Me a Baby As Fast As You Can
Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
Older Mothers, Fertility Treatments Driving a Big Increase in Twin Births, New CDC Report Says
Stem cell research on donor eggs often not disclosed
Scientists Grow Sperm in Laboratory Dish
Sydney Women Turn to US Dads for Sperm Donation
DNA Forensics
Expanded N.Y. DNA Database Would Seek To Exonerate the Innocent, Expose the Guilty
Gov. Cuomo Plan Pushes DNA Samples from All People Convicted of a Crime in New York
Police Can Identify Suspect's Eye Colour from DNA
Signs of Skepticism About DNA Forensics
Stop the Genetic Dragnet
St. Louis Officers to File Suit over Department's DNA Collection
MBTA to swap spit with FBI database
Visa Wants to Make Money off Your DNA
Police Balk At Submitting Their Own DNA to Forensic Databases
Police cite privacy concerns over their own DNA
Egg Retrieval
A New Push for Human Cloning in Korea
Egg Donor Ad is Raising Eyebrows
Stem cell research on donor eggs often not disclosed
New Study Links Egg Harvesting for IVF to Ovarian Cancer
Stem Cell Study: Govt Wants to Draw Ethical Line
Do Egg Donors Lie?
Cloning Technology: Control the Bonanza for Research Eggs
Doctors Warn of Potentially Fatal Complications in Fertility Treatments
Bay Area Local News Reports on Asian Egg Market
Eggs From Young Asian Women In High Demand
Genetic Selection
Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
Errors During PGD Testing Raise Wrongful Conception Concerns
Genetic Testing for Down Syndrome: What It Can and Cannot Tell You
Sex Selection Game-Changer? New Fetal Gene Test Reveals Sex at 7 Weeks
The quest for the perfect baby
Turning 40, Going Global
A California Fertility Clinic Promotes High-Tech Sex Selection
Embryo testing stokes concern over designer babies
Sperm Bank Turns Down Redheads
Sex Selection: Not only Asia’s Problem, Says Council of Europe
Hybrids & Chimeras
Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the 'Spider-Goats'
Chimeric Monkeys Born in Stem Cell Study
Which Came First the Chicken or the Dinosaur?...Think Again
German Ethics Council Weighs In On Human-Animal Chimeras
New rules urged on hybrid animal-human experiments
Researchers produce two-father mice babies, and bait the hype trap
"Splice" is an Infertile Hybrid
The "Medical" Justification for Re-creating Neanderthals
Scientists want debate on animals with human genes
Promises, Promises
Inheritable Genetic Modification
'Three-Person IVF' Technique Moves Closer
Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the 'Spider-Goats'
Eric Lander on Scientific Responsibility
Dystopian "In Time" and Inequalities in Our Time
Gene Therapy Can Protect Against HIV
New Buzz around Biological Hazards
Lab Fight Raises U.S. Security Issues
Gene therapy and stem cells unite
Which Came First the Chicken or the Dinosaur?...Think Again
Cats as Experimental Animals for Human Diseases
Medical Gene Transfer
Treatment for Blood Disease Is Gene Therapy Landmark
Gene Therapy Can Protect Against HIV
Richmond bioscience company makes strides in HIV research
Thought Experiments on a History of Gene Transfer Experiments
Gene therapy and stem cells unite
Stem Cells Update: Clinical Trials, Possible Funds, Long-Range Visions and Short-Term Scams
Living to 100 and Beyond
Pro-choice women's health and public interest advocates voice concerns regarding fetal gene tests for sex and trait selection
Identical Twins Are Genetically Different
Gene Therapy Against HIV Not a Proven Cure, Experts Say
Personal genomics
Fitness 2.0: It's Genes Versus Gym
New DNA Reader to Bring Promise
Life, Monetized
Sex Selection Game-Changer? New Fetal Gene Test Reveals Sex at 7 Weeks
Multiple Gene Test Allows More Targeted Treatment of Cancer
Visa Wants to Make Money off Your DNA
Pharmacies Cop Flak over Genetic Testing for Weight Loss
Gene therapy and stem cells unite
Celebrating Dorothy Roberts and Fatal Invention
New Book Looks at Health Justice Alongside Genetic Research
Reproductive Cloning
A New Push for Human Cloning in Korea
Cloning vs. Conservation
How to Use $90? Buy a Gene Ring, or Burn for Warmth?
Disgraced S Korean Cloner Hwang Back with Coyote Claim
Celebrating Our Bodies Ourselves
Turning 40, Going Global
Gallup Poll: Cloning Still Unpopular
CGS Summary of Public Opinion Polls
EU talks over cloned meat collapse
EU institutions clash over animal cloning regulations
Research Cloning
A New Push for Human Cloning in Korea
Cloning Technology: Control the Bonanza for Research Eggs
Oregon Health & Science University wins breakthrough stem-cell patent; ethics of cloning debated
More on Cash for Eggs
Fresh (Human) Eggs for Sale
A Campaign to Allow a Market in Women's Eggs for a New Kind of Cloning Research
Stem cell research used cloning technique, paid women for eggs
High-interest clones
Stem Cell Research Used Cloning Technique, Paid Women for Eggs
After Setbacks in Harvesting Stem Cells, a New Approach Shows Promise
Sequencing & Genomics
Should People Know About the Results of Their Genome Screening?
New DNA Reader to Bring Promise
Eric Lander on Scientific Responsibility
Genetic Discrimination and Ron Paul
Chimeric Monkeys Born in Stem Cell Study
Health Insurance and ‘Genetic Discrimination’: Are Rules Needed?
Errors During PGD Testing Raise Wrongful Conception Concerns
How to Use $90? Buy a Gene Ring, or Burn for Warmth?
New Breast Cancer Test May Help Curtail Treatments
Free Rudy! The Cosby Show and the Genetics of ‘Eating Your Vegetables’
Sex Selection
Boy or Girl? Why Dads Want Sons, but Moms Want Daughters.
Canadian Doctor’s Suggestion to Delay Revealing Baby’s Sex Ignites Controversy over ‘Feticide’
Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
The Daughter’s Return
UNFPA Armenia Presented the “Prevalence and Reasons of Sex Selective Abortions in Armenia” Report
Republican Bill Exploits Concerns about Sexism and Racism to Undermine Abortion Rights
Bill Would Ban Abortions Based on Sex or Race
Sex Selection Game-Changer? New Fetal Gene Test Reveals Sex at 7 Weeks
A California Fertility Clinic Promotes High-Tech Sex Selection
Sex Selection Blares on World Bank’s Radar
Stem Cell Research
Gingrich Vows to Ban Embryonic Stem-Cell Research, Questions in Vitro Practices
ACT Publishes First, Tentative Results of Embryonic Stem Cell Trial
California’s Stem Cell Agency “Stacks the Deck” at a Key Hearing
Stacking the Deck on the Stem-Cell Program
S. Korea Approves Sales of New Stem Cell Drug
60 Minutes Exposes Stem Cell Scams — Again
Stem Cell Fraud: A 60 Minutes Investigation
Chimeric Monkeys Born in Stem Cell Study
Stem cell research on donor eggs often not disclosed
American Scientist Arrested in Stem-Cell Clinic Sting
Surrogacy
Egg Donor Ad is Raising Eyebrows
Surrogacy Broker in “Baby-Selling Ring” Sent to Prison
Lawyer in Baby-Selling Ring Sentenced
Body for Rent
Surrogacy Children Caught in Legal Limbo
Surrogate Mother Left with Huge Bill; Babies in Austria
South Africa tightens rules for foreigners to make families
New Details Emerge in Baby-Selling Scam
Protecting the Rights of Surrogate Mothers in India
Surrogates Often Deeply Upset by the Process: Study
Policies
When Cultures Collide
US Federal
Myriad Cert Petition Now Fully Briefed; Supreme Court May Decide by Feb. 20
Corporate Target of Gene Patent Lawsuit Acquires Another Gene
The Military’s Push To Green Our Explosives
U.S. Pledges $1.8 Million in Response to Unethical Guatemalan Medical Studies
Genetic Discrimination and Ron Paul
Sperm Donor in Fremont Feeling Heat from Feds
Republican Bill Exploits Concerns about Sexism and Racism to Undermine Abortion Rights
Can a Company Own Your Genes?
Gene Patent Stoush Heads to US Court
Payment for Bone Marrow Donors?
California
California’s Stem Cell Agency “Stacks the Deck” at a Key Hearing
Stacking the Deck on the Stem-Cell Program
A New Bay Area Lab Will Focus on Synthetic Biology
Mercury News editorial: Stem-Cell Institute Should Take a Bow (Out)
Ethics Concerns about Geron's Exit from the Stem Cell Business
Hoping for Cures, Supporters May Back Another Ballot Measure for Stem Cell Agency
Surrogacy Broker in “Baby-Selling Ring” Sent to Prison
Lawyer in Baby-Selling Ring Sentenced
Bay Area Local News Reports on Asian Egg Market
Geron Quits the Embryonic Stem Cell Industry
The States
Non-Consenting Adults
Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu
Gov. Cuomo Plan Pushes DNA Samples from All People Convicted of a Crime in New York
An Interesting Weekend on the Perils of Building Better Humans
Thousands Sterilized, a State Weighs Restitution
Ruling Restricts Newborn Blood Use
St. Louis Officers to File Suit over Department's DNA Collection
DNA Forensics: Setting the (Fool’s) Gold Standard
Fresh (Human) Eggs for Sale
Stem cell research used cloning technique, paid women for eggs
The United Kingdom
Treatment for Blood Disease Is Gene Therapy Landmark
Surrogacy Children Caught in Legal Limbo
UK Supreme Court Upholds Gene Patent
HFEA Triples the Going Rate for Women’s Eggs in UK
What price parenthood?
EU court: No patents for some stem cell techniques
More on Cash for Eggs
NHS ignores gene patents, experts say
Stark warning on fertility for older women
UK Drops DNA Tests For Refugees And Asylum Seekers
Other Countries
Informed Consent on Trial
Flap over Designer Sperm in India
A New Push for Human Cloning in Korea
S. Korea Approves Sales of New Stem Cell Drug
Make Me a Baby As Fast As You Can
Sydney Women Turn to US Dads for Sperm Donation
The Daughter’s Return
UNFPA Armenia Presented the “Prevalence and Reasons of Sex Selective Abortions in Armenia” Report
Stem Cell Study: Govt Wants to Draw Ethical Line
Body for Rent
Global Governance
Make Me a Baby As Fast As You Can
Mengele in America
Surrogate Mothers in India
Sex Selection Blares on World Bank’s Radar
World Bank's flagship report makes case for investment in women
Sex Selection: Not only Asia’s Problem, Says Council of Europe
More on the Guatemala Syphilis Scandal
The Blade Runner's Personal Victory
'Explosive' Growth in Foreign Drug Testing Raises Ethical Questions
Whose profit? Why bioethics needs a global perspective
Patents & Other IP
Myriad Cert Petition Now Fully Briefed; Supreme Court May Decide by Feb. 20
Corporate Target of Gene Patent Lawsuit Acquires Another Gene
Myriad Genetics Acquires Patent on Another Breast Cancer-Linked Gene
Can a Company Own Your Genes?
Gene Patent Stoush Heads to US Court
Biotech Industry Spent $2M on Lobbying in 3Q
Life, Monetized
Geron Quits the Embryonic Stem Cell Industry
UK Supreme Court Upholds Gene Patent
Oregon Health & Science University wins breakthrough stem-cell patent; ethics of cloning debated
Society
A "Post-Human" Future?
Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
Scientists Grow Sperm in Laboratory Dish
Larry King: I Want To Be Frozen
Dystopian "In Time" and Inequalities in Our Time
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Healthiest One of All?
Oregon Health & Science University wins breakthrough stem-cell patent; ethics of cloning debated
Immortality in Our Lifetime? Selection Bias and Collective Delusion
Living to 100 and Beyond
How to Hack a Genome
The Serious Intent Behind a Ridiculous Idea
Arts & Culture
How to Use $90? Buy a Gene Ring, or Burn for Warmth?
Dystopian "In Time" and Inequalities in Our Time
Celebrating Dorothy Roberts and Fatal Invention
Celebrating Our Bodies Ourselves
Turning 40, Going Global
X-Men Recharge: People in the Margin or Powers on a Pedestal?
An Uncomfortable Synthesis of Art and Biology
The loaded ethics of DNA hacking
3-Month Pregnancies for Hire: A Pure Fantasy?
New film depicts a genetically engineered, anti-gay future
Bioethics
Informed Consent on Trial
12 MP Doctors Let Off with Rs.5,000 [$94] Fine for Conducting Illegal Drug Trials
Ethics Concerns about Geron's Exit from the Stem Cell Business
Payment for Bone Marrow Donors?
A Conversation with Writer and Troublemaker Carl Elliott, Parts I & II
Doctors Offer Fertility, Other Treatments as Contest Prizes
Mengele in America
Moral Obligations For Thee But Not For Me?
Lab Fight Raises U.S. Security Issues
The quest for the perfect baby
Biopolitics, Parties & Pundits
Gingrich Vows to Ban Embryonic Stem-Cell Research, Questions in Vitro Practices
Genetic Discrimination and Ron Paul
Hoping for Cures, Supporters May Back Another Ballot Measure for Stem Cell Agency
Bill Would Ban Abortions Based on Sex or Race
Celebrating Dorothy Roberts and Fatal Invention
Of Dogs, Clones and Rick Perry
Racial Disparities in Funding At NIH
NIH Uncovers Racial Disparity in Grant Awards
New Book on the Biopolitics of Race
Betting That Biotech Will Bring the FDA to Heel? Don’t Count On It
Biotech & Pharma
Myriad Cert Petition Now Fully Briefed; Supreme Court May Decide by Feb. 20
ACT Publishes First, Tentative Results of Embryonic Stem Cell Trial
Myriad Genetics Acquires Patent on Another Breast Cancer-Linked Gene
Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu
S. Korea Approves Sales of New Stem Cell Drug
New DNA Reader to Bring Promise
60 Minutes Exposes Stem Cell Scams — Again
Eric Lander on Scientific Responsibility
Make Me a Baby As Fast As You Can
Genetic Discrimination and Ron Paul
Civil Society
Stop the Genetic Dragnet
Bay Area Local News Reports on Asian Egg Market
Lab Fight Raises U.S. Security Issues
Police Balk At Submitting Their Own DNA to Forensic Databases
Celebrating Dorothy Roberts and Fatal Invention
Celebrating Our Bodies Ourselves
Turning 40, Going Global
Sex Selection: Not only Asia’s Problem, Says Council of Europe
The Problem with Twin Studies
Pro-choice women's health and public interest advocates voice concerns regarding fetal gene tests for sex and trait selection
Eugenics
Sterilized by North Carolina, She Felt Raped Once More
Payment Set for Those Sterilized in Program
Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
An Interesting Weekend on the Perils of Building Better Humans
Thousands Sterilized, a State Weighs Restitution
Francis Galton's Novel about Eugenics
Bay Area Local News Reports on Asian Egg Market
The Life Penalty: Sterilizing California
Eugenics Past And Present, Driven By Race, Class, Economics
Sex Selection Game-Changer? New Fetal Gene Test Reveals Sex at 7 Weeks
Media Coverage
How a Genetically Engineered Super-Virus Spread – Through the Media
ACT Publishes First, Tentative Results of Embryonic Stem Cell Trial
Dog Cloning Infomercial on TV
60 Minutes Exposes Stem Cell Scams — Again
Cloning vs. Conservation
An Interesting Weekend on the Perils of Building Better Humans
Free Rudy! The Cosby Show and the Genetics of ‘Eating Your Vegetables’
Signs of Skepticism About DNA Forensics
An IVF Groupon?
Hwang Clones Coyotes, Scores Headlines
Public Opinion
Concerns about fetal gene tests for sex and trait selection [video]
The Abortion Trap
German campaign to stop DNA database expansion, now in English
NY Bill to Expand DNA Database Stalls in Legislature
Betting That Biotech Will Bring the FDA to Heel? Don’t Count On It
Americans Prefer Sons To Daughters, Survey Finds
Gallup Poll: Cloning Still Unpopular
Animal and Pet Cloning Opinion Polls
CGS Summary of Public Opinion Polls
Toward a More Nuanced Science Journalism
Perspectives
Disability
Sterilized by North Carolina, She Felt Raped Once More
Payment Set for Those Sterilized in Program
Genetic Discrimination and Ron Paul
Stem Cell Fraud: A 60 Minutes Investigation
Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
Health Insurance and ‘Genetic Discrimination’: Are Rules Needed?
Thousands Sterilized, a State Weighs Restitution
Francis Galton's Novel about Eugenics
Genetic Testing for Down Syndrome: What It Can and Cannot Tell You
Sex Selection Game-Changer? New Fetal Gene Test Reveals Sex at 7 Weeks
Environmentalism
With Prevalence of Nanomaterials Rising, Panel Urges Review of Risks
Cloning vs. Conservation
Bioengineers Debate Use of Military Money
New Buzz around Biological Hazards
Lab Fight Raises U.S. Security Issues
Yet Another Idea for Using Biotechnology to Rescue Endangered Species
Is Public Health and Safety Being Considered in the Construction of LBNL's New Biolab in Berkeley?
New rules urged on hybrid animal-human experiments
Programming a Fetus for a Healthier Life
EU talks over cloned meat collapse
Human Rights
Non-Consenting Adults
Make Me a Baby As Fast As You Can
Genetic Discrimination and Ron Paul
12 MP Doctors Let Off with Rs.5,000 [$94] Fine for Conducting Illegal Drug Trials
Payment for Bone Marrow Donors?
The Life Penalty: Sterilizing California
Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks
Organ Gangs Force Poor to Sell Kidneys for Desperate Israelis
Kidney Broker Said to Use Johns Hopkins in Organ-Traffic Case
Moral Obligations For Thee But Not For Me?
LGBTQI
Is Hollywood turning surrogacy into a trend?
Gene of the Week: Christianity
New film depicts a genetically engineered, anti-gay future
India moves toward regulation of assisted reproduction and surrogacy
On the scales: Social justice and pluralism in reproductive tourism
Surrogacy Law: Conn. Gives Non-Genetic Parents Legal Rights
Researchers produce two-father mice babies, and bait the hype trap
ART and Art in the Movies 2010
Other uses for laboratory-produced sperm?
Will women one day father children?
Race
Payment Set for Those Sterilized in Program
Gov. Cuomo Plan Pushes DNA Samples from All People Convicted of a Crime in New York
Republican Bill Exploits Concerns about Sexism and Racism to Undermine Abortion Rights
Thousands Sterilized, a State Weighs Restitution
How to Use $90? Buy a Gene Ring, or Burn for Warmth?
Bill Would Ban Abortions Based on Sex or Race
Francis Galton's Novel about Eugenics
Dystopian "In Time" and Inequalities in Our Time
Eggs From Young Asian Women In High Demand
The Life Penalty: Sterilizing California
Religion
Stem Cell Strife in US and EU Courts
Hijacking Human Rights in Latin America
Gene of the Week: Christianity
Vatican warns of ethical risks with gene progress
Religious leaders confront reproductive technologies
Vatican Ethics Guide Stirs Controversy
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
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights
Flap over Designer Sperm in India
Canadian Doctor’s Suggestion to Delay Revealing Baby’s Sex Ignites Controversy over ‘Feticide’
Study Finds Doctors Shouldn’t Transfer 3 or More Embryos into Women Having IVF at Any Age
Payment Set for Those Sterilized in Program
Make Me a Baby As Fast As You Can
Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
Egg Donor Ad is Raising Eyebrows
Older Mothers, Fertility Treatments Driving a Big Increase in Twin Births, New CDC Report Says
Stem cell research on donor eggs often not disclosed
The Daughter’s Return
Overview
About Us
Highlights of the Decade: 2000-2010
Advisory Committee
About Generations Ahead
Ralph Brave, 1953-2007
Contact Us
History of the Center for Genetics and Society
Jobs and Internships
Staff areas of expertise
Staff, Fellows, and Contributors
Program on Gender, Justice, and Human Genetics [PDF]
Past events
Panel: Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing
The Tarrytown Meetings
Conference: Challenging Robotic Warfare and Social Control
Symposium: Reproductive Technologies in the 21st Century
Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building
Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics
Global Governance of the New Human Biotechnologies
Bipartisan inquiry into California’s stem cell agency to hear from Jesse Reynolds
Center for Genetics and Society's Executive Director to Testify before Congress on International Governance of Human Biotechnologies
Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities
Richard Hayes's Presentations & Talks
Is there an emerging international consensus on the proper uses of the new human genetic technologies?
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
Inequality, the Environment and the Human Future
Richard Hayes's Publications
An Emerging Consensus
The Vanishing Republican Voter
Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks.
Self-Made Man
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?
Richard Hayes in the News
UCal Berkeley Pulls Back Freshman Gene Tests
Designer Babies: Ethical? Inevitable?
Immortality 2.0: A Silicon Valley insider looks at California's Transhumanist movement
Designer babies: Creating the perfect child
The Modified Man
House Panel Discusses International Limits On Gene Study to Prevent Competitive Abuse
Cloning Critics Split [PDF]
Smarter than thou? Stanford conference ponders a brave new world with machines more powerful than their creators
Assembly committee rejects ban on cloned pets [California]
Pet Clones Spur Call For Limits
Richard Hayes's Blog Posts
Richard Dawkins: Breed humans like cows, horses and dogs?
Welcome!
Marcy Darnovsky's Presentations & Talks
Against the Grain: Progressive Bioethics
Conference: Challenging Robotic Warfare and Social Control
Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building
Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics
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
Marcy Darnovsky's Publications
Cloning Technology: Control the Bonanza for Research Eggs
Egg Freezing: Risks to Women and Children Unknown
Surrogacy and Baby-Selling: Latest Fertility Industry Scandal
The Consequence of Unnatural Selection: 160 Million Missing Girls
One Step Closer to Designer Babies
Assisted reproduction and choice in the biotech age: recommendations for a way forward
Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World
"Moral Questions of an Altogether Different Kind" [PDF]
Commercialisation of Reproductive and Genetic Technologies: What Lessons for Biotech Developments around the Globe?
Biopolitics for the 21st Century
Marcy Darnovsky in the News
Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?
Errors During PGD Testing Raise Wrongful Conception Concerns
California Stem Cell Agency Needs to Study Itself
The Economics of Stem Cell Research
Richmond bioscience company makes strides in HIV research
Fresh (Human) Eggs for Sale
Stem cell research used cloning technique, paid women for eggs
Concerns about fetal gene tests for sex and trait selection [video]
Boy or Girl? Down Syndrome? What to Expect When You’re Testing
The Abortion Trap
Marcy Darnovsky's Blog Posts
Flap over Designer Sperm in India
California’s Stem Cell Agency “Stacks the Deck” at a Key Hearing
Eric Lander on Scientific Responsibility
Republican Bill Exploits Concerns about Sexism and Racism to Undermine Abortion Rights
Surrogacy Broker in “Baby-Selling Ring” Sent to Prison
European Court of Justice: No Patents on Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Thought Experiments on a History of Gene Transfer Experiments
A California Fertility Clinic Promotes High-Tech Sex Selection
Immortality in Our Lifetime? Selection Bias and Collective Delusion
Egg Freezing: Risks to Women and Children Unknown
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
Womb for sale debate surfaces in Nepal
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
Oh, No, It's a Girl! South Asians Flock to Sex-Selection Clinics in U.S.
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
Patricia Berne's Presentations & Talks
Patricia Berne's Publications
Patricia Berne in the News
Genetic Drift
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
Life, Monetized
All That Glitters Isn’t Gold
Black Salt
Clinical trials on trial
Prisoners as Human Subjects: A Closer Look at the Institute of Medicine's Recommendations to Loosen Current Restrictions on Using Prisoners in Scientific Research
Human subjects research with prisoners: putting the ethical question in context
Democrats and DNA Databases
"Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"
The dangers of growing DNA databases
When Scientists Pick a Fight with the Law
Osagie Obasogie in the News
Osagie Obasogie on the Jeff Farias Show [MP3 audio]
Designer Babies [MP3 audio]
Death in gene therapy trial raises questions about private IRBs
Mixing animal and human cells gets more exotic
Osagie Obasogie's Blog Posts
An Interesting Weekend on the Perils of Building Better Humans
Free Rudy! The Cosby Show and the Genetics of ‘Eating Your Vegetables’
Bay Area Local News Reports on Asian Egg Market
An IVF Groupon?
Police Balk At Submitting Their Own DNA to Forensic Databases
Kaufman on Scientists’ Complicity in Media Misrepresentations of the Relationship Between Race, Genetics, and Health Disparities
Racial Disparities in Funding At NIH
The Problem with Twin Studies
New Book on the Biopolitics of Race
Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines on Outsourcing Clinical Trials
Jesse Reynolds's Presentations & Talks
Letter to the New York stem cell research program ethics board
Submitted testimony concerning the California stem cell research program
Testimony: Stem Cell Research and Intellectual Property
Jesse Reynolds's Publications
UC Berkeley, Don't Send Those Swabs
Emerging Technologies and a Sustainable, Healthy, Just World
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Egg Donation Survey
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Another Expansion of DNA Databases: South Korea Collects DNA from Labor Unionists
FDA Considers Regulation of DTC Gene Tests, Setting Blogs Ablaze
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Fertility Industry Fraud…Yet Again
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HFEA Triples the Going Rate for Women’s Eggs in UK
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Sperm Donor Siblings: Family Trees, Invisible Roots
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Corporate Target of Gene Patent Lawsuit Acquires Another Gene
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Genetic Testing for Down Syndrome: What It Can and Cannot Tell You
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Which Came First the Chicken or the Dinosaur?...Think Again
What’s in a Number? 150+ Offspring from One Donor
New Book Looks at Health Justice Alongside Genetic Research
Ralph Brave, 1953-2007
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Dog Cloning Infomercial on TV
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Eric Lander on Scientific Responsibility
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Women’s health and public interest groups warn against putting women’s health at risk in new kind of research cloning
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Public interest group welcomes regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests
Public interest group calls for UC Berkeley to suspend controversial gene tests for incoming students
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Public interest groups support groundbreaking challenge to human gene patents
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Final federal stem cell rules welcomed by public interest group
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Surviving Ourselves [PDF]
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New Genetic and Reproductive Technologies [PDF]
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September 18, 2008
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Disgraced Stem Cell Researcher Turns to Dog Cloning for Cash
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April 16, 2008
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March 17, 2008
Female Sperm and Gay Guinea Pigs
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February 7, 2008
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Geneticizing Disease: Implications for Racial Health Disparities
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December 21, 2007
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November 29, 2007
Beyond the Embryo Fight
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October 25, 2007
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September 26, 2007
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August 29, 2007
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July 26, 2007
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May 31, 2007
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April 30, 2007
The Case Against Perfection: New Book by Noted Scholar
First U.S. Public Funding of Research Cloning Tainted by Scandal and Questions
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February 28, 2007
Researchers Push for Looser Rules on Procuring Women's Eggs
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January 26, 2007
Important Changes in UK Law on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies
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December 14, 2006
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California's Stem Cell Research Program: An Update
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November 15, 2006
Announcing the CGS Blog: Biopolitical Times
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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
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September 14, 2006
Stem Cells on Missouri's Ballot: Much Political Ado, Little Policy Meaning
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August 4, 2006
After the vote and the veto: Making sense of stem cell politics
California stem cell research program: The governor's blank check
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The Future of Bioethics in a Divided Democracy
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June 29, 2006
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
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May 12, 2006
The Hwang Saga Continues: A Genetic Crossroads Exclusive
California Bill on Eggs for Research Unanimously Approved by Committee
Groups Protest Proposed Loosening of UK Guidelines on Eggs for Research
LGBT Community Discusses Reproductive and Genetic Technologies
Pro-Choice, Public Interest Groups Call for Stronger California Stem Cell Standards
CIRM Court Ruling Does Little to Solve Its Problems
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March 29, 2006
Cloning Scientist No Longer Supreme
The Baby Business
Policy Developments on Women's Eggs
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February 23, 2006
Rethinking research cloning?
California stem cell program still missing the mark
Research cloning scandal grows to include fraud, kickbacks, and bribes
University tries to downplay US researcher's role in cloning fraud
Eggs for research: Endangering women's health?
The World Economic Forum addresses human biotechnologies
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January 27, 2006
C- for the California stem cell research program
Korea and beyond: Hwang faces criminal charges as the scandal widens to the United States
Women's eggs for research: Scandal expands
Calls for effective oversight and regulation
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December 15, 2005
Faked data, unethical egg procurement, cover-ups, lies: Stem cell and cloning scandal highlights need for real regulation
California stem cell research continues to stumble
Reproductive Justice for All
National Council of Churches Approves Policy on New Human Biotechnologies
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Eggs vs Ethics in the Stem Cell Debate
November 10, 2005
Fertility Doctors Announce Sex Selection "Clinical Trial" That Will Create Children For Experimental Study
World Stem Cell Foundation: End Run Around Oversight?
San Francisco Clinic Set To Provide Eggs For Research
California Stem Cell Program: A Billion-Dollar Bait And Switch?
Sacramento State Hosts First Ever Conference On The History Of California Eugenics
Baby Gender Mentor Is Fraudulent, Some Women Say
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Jose Canseco and Human Genetic Engineering
September 29, 2005
CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM: CONTINUING CONTROVERSY
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Mentoring Gender, Selecting Sex
August 4, 2005
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Senator Frist's stem cell shift
Dog cloning reopens controversy
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May 31, 2005
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UK GOVERNMENT REPORT SUPPORTS REPRODUCTIVE CLONING, SEX SELECTION
March 31, 2005
STEM CELL CONTROVERSIES CONTINUE TO GROW
CALIFORNIA STEM CELL PROGRAM UNDER FIRE; CRITICS INCLUDE PROP. 71 SUPPORTERS
United Nations calls for Bans on Human Cloning
California Bill To Ban Cloned And Genetically Modified Pets
FoE Condemns Athletic "Gene Doping"
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January 24, 2005
MOUNTING CONTROVERSY OVER STEM CELL INSTITUTE IN CALIFORNIA
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December 2, 2004
SKEPTICISM AND QUESTIONS FOLLOW PASSAGE OF CALIFORNIA'S $3 BILLION STEM-CELL INITIATIVE
FEATURED EVENT: "THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, THE BIOTECH AGENDA AND THE HUMAN FUTURE: WHAT DIRECTION FOR LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES?"
UNITED NATIONS TO DRAFT "DECLARATION AGAINST HUMAN CLONING"
7th Annual World Congress of Bioethics: A Report
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Research cloning, PGD, and nuclear transfer in the United Kingdom
New Zealand Legislation
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September 23, 2004
PROPOSITION 71—"THE CALIFORNIA STEM CELL RESEARCH AND CURES ACT"
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July 9, 2004
Report from the Gender and Justice in the Gene Age Conference
Special Review: New Controversies over Stem Cells and Cloning
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April 9, 2004
Report by the President's Council on Bioethics: Reproduction and Responsibility
CGS Report on the new Canadian Assisted Human Reproduction Act
The Continuing Commercialization of Sex Selection
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Feburary 17, 2004 - Bulletin: The Korean Cloning Announcement
Key Links and Commentary
In the Wake of the Korean Cloning Announcement: An Analysis
January 13, 2004
TOP TEN DEVELOPMENTS OF 2003
FEATURE: HUMAN-ANIMAL CHIMERAS
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November 24, 2003
UK Agency Recommends Stronger Rules on Sex Selection
International Conference: Within and Beyond the Limits to Human Nature: The Challenge of the New Human Genetic Technologies
United Nations Postpones Further Discussion on Treaty Banning Human Cloning
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October 2, 2003
CANADA CONSIDERS COMPREHENSIVE LEGISLATION ON ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AND CLONING
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August 20, 2003
Sex Selection Moves to Consumer Culture
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July 11, 2003
TRANSHUMANISM RELOADED
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June 9, 2003
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May 9, 2003
MEDIA COVERAGE OF DNA AT FIFTY
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March 25, 2003 - Bulletin: Bill McKibben's new book available now: Enough
February 7, 2003
NEW HUMAN GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES ENGAGED AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM, PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL
SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN CLONING, SOCIAL JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, THE ENVIRONMENT: WASHINGTON DC, FEBRUARY 25
CGS CONTRIBUTION TO UK’S PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON SEX SELECTION
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January 12, 2003
MEDIA REACTION TO RAELIAN CLONING CLAIM
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CGS AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
UC REGENTS LECTURE BY CHARLES WEINER: "THE TROUBLED HELIX"
December 17, 2002
2002: AN ASSESSMENT
NEW ADVOCACY OF INHERITABLE GENETIC MODIFICATION (IGM)
UPDATE ON THE PUSH FOR SEX SELECTION
TWO WORKSHOPS ON HUMAN GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
New study: Bioethics as "the ethics of the scientific establishment"
China, "The Cloning Superpower"
CGS NEWS: SYLLABI AND RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS ON CGS WEB SITE
November 26, 2002
SUPPORT FOR BANS ON HUMAN CLONING
SUPPORT FOR BANS ON HUMAN GENETIC MODIFICATION
CLONING FIRMS STUMBLE
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October 25, 2002
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer Calls for International Accord on Human Genetics
World Social Forum (WSF) to Address New Human Genetic Technologies
"Designer Baby" Advocate Gregory Stock Gives Keynote at Biotechnology Investment Conference
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September 18, 2002
UN Treaty to Ban Human Reproductive Cloning
World Congress of Bioethics
Australia Bans All Human Cloning
New York Times Reviews Gregory Stock's Redesigning Humans
Opera Addresses New Human Genetic Technologies
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CGS Web Site
August 12, 2002
Two Important Events
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) in the News
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July 11, 2002
World Watch Magazine Special Issue: "Beyond Cloning: The Risk of Rushing into Human Genetic Engineering"
New Articles and Op-Eds
Missed Message: Deeper Analysis of the President’s Council on Bioethics Report
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June 12, 2002
End Game in the Senate Cloning Debate
New op- eds by the Center for Genetics and Society
WHO report sanctions genetic enhancement and inheritable genetic modification
FDA acknowledges dangers of "de facto germline gene transfer" in fertility treatment
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April 30, 2002
INCREASINGLY DANGEROUS POLARIZATION ON HUMAN CLONING
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
NEW RESOURCES ON CLONING AND HUMAN GENETIC MANIPULATION
NEW PROPOSALS TO "RETHINK OUR OPPOSITION TO EUGENICS"
March 6, 2002 - Bulletin: Update on Recent Activities of the Center for Genetics and Society
October 3, 2001
Human Cloning Advocate Pushes Fertility Clinics to OK Sex Selection
World Conference on Racism Addresses Human Genetic Engineering
Scientists Boycott Conference Organized by Human Cloning Advocate
Legislative Updates: Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia
UPCOMING CONFERENCE: Gene Watch 2001: Workshops with the Experts
"EXPLORATORY INITIATIVE" IS NOW THE "CENTER FOR GENETICS AND SOCIETY"
August 18, 2001
EDITORS' NOTE
Women's Health and Reproductive Rights Leaders Call for Cloning Ban
Cloning Advocates at the National Academy of Sciences
France and Germany Call for UN To Draft Global Cloning Treaty
EMBRYO CLONING AND STEM CELL RESEARCH
EVENTS AND RESOURCES
August 2, 2001 - Bulletin: The U.S. Congress Votes on Human Cloning: A Clouded Victory
June 21, 2001
EDITORS' NOTE
TWO BILLS: A REAL CLONING BAN AND A BAN THAT ISN'T ONE
Canada Calls for Global Bans on Human Cloning, Germline Modification
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NEW RESOURCES
May 16, 2001
EDITORS' NOTE
HUMAN CLONING UPDATE
"Next Step for Science" and "Shaping Things to Come"
Gerhard Shroder Rejects Human Genetic Manipulation
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May 9, 2001 - Bulletin: Researchers Claim to Create Genetically Modified Children
March 31, 2001
US CONGRESS TO CONSIDER BAN ON HUMAN CLONING
INTERNATIONAL COALITION FORMING TO OPPOSE HUMAN CLONING AND INHERITABLE GENETIC MODIFICATION
REPORT FROM THE ANTINORI / ZAVOS CLONING WORKSHOP IN ROME
POINTERS AND QUOTES
February 21, 2001
EDITORS' NOTE
UPCOMING EVENTS
American-Italian Team Says It Will Begin Cloning Effort
Biotech Industry Position on Human Cloning
David King on the Genome Announcement
POINTERS: SAMPLING OF ARTICLES ON HUMAN CLONING AND TECHNO-EUGENICS
January 30, 2001 - Bulletin : No Human Cloning
January 7, 2001
EDITORS' NOTE
E Magazine Cover Story: "Designing People"
Disabled Peoples International Statement on Human Genetics
French Best-Selling Novel Celebrates a Post-Human Future
Two New Techniques Developed for Producing "Designer Sperm"
Bill Prohibiting Human Cloning Introduced in Texas
Flood of Responses to Watson's Genetic Determinism
Eduardo Kac on Transgenic Animals as Art
UPCOMING EVENTS
December 7, 2000
Netherlands Bank Code: No Funds for Human Genetic Modification
Human Cloning Effort by Religious Group Reportedly to Begin
New Comments on Human Genetic Modification by Noted Figures: James Watson, Daniel Wikler, Gregory Stock
Lawsuit in Gene Therapy Death Settled
Embryo Cloning Debate Grows in Europe and UK
New Push for In Utero Gene Transfer
POINTERS
NOT A DESIGNER BABY: Embryo Selection Provides Tissue Match for Sick Sister
October 16, 2000
EDITORS' NOTE
New Bans on Human Genetic Modification in Japan and Netherlands
Greenpeace Prevents Patents on Pig-Human Embryos
Gelsinger wrongful death lawsuit names bioethicist Caplan
California Cloning Committee Meets in Los Angeles
Scientists, Activists, and Biotech Execs Debate Human Genetic Modification at State of the World Forum
Art Exhibits on Biotechnology
UPCOMING EVENTS
September 19, 2000
AAAS RELEASES REPORT ON HUMAN GERMLINE ENGINEERING
New Policies on Human Embryo Research in the US and UK
European Parliament Opposes UK Move on Embryo Cloning
British Medical Experts Predict Human Cloning Despite Strong Public Opposition
Supporters of Human Cloning Press Ahead
Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing
UPCOMING EVENTS
August 4, 2000
The New Politics of Human Genetics: A Comment and a Request
Collins and Venter on Human Germline Engineering
Noteworthy Post-Announcement Media Accounts
"Human Genetics Calendar 2000 to 2040" by Corporate Futurist Joseph Coates
Lee Silver on "Type I" and "Type II" enhancements
Stuart Newman on the Hazards of Developmental Gene Modification
Support for Genetic Discrimination
Behind the Jesse Gelsinger Story
Reporting Rules for Gene Therapy Experiments to be Loosened
June 12, 2000
BREAKING NEWS: Human genome sequencing announcement imminent
A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
UPCOMING EVENTS
RECENT EVENT
RAND study: "Biotechnology and Global Governance"
NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
May 10, 2000
ALERT: California Human Cloning Advisory Committee meets in San Francisco on Monday, May 15
"Rethinking ELSI," Harvard University, May 15-16
"The New Techno-Eugenics and the Threat to Global Equity and Human Development," Harvard University, May 18
"Enhancing the Human" symposium with Gregory Stock, Peter Sloterdijk, Daniel Kevles, Paul Billings, Gregory Benford; UCLA, May 21
"The Operable Human," Peter Sloterdijk, Harvard University, May 19
NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
April 16, 2000
Computer scientist Bill Joy warns of dangers posed by genetic engineering, nanotechnolgoy, and robotics
Conference on "Extended Life / Eternal Life"
Biodevastation 2000 addresses human genetic technologies
New book by Gregory Stock and John Campbell promotes human germline engineering
Council for Responsible Genetics issues "Genetic Bill of Rights"
More media attention to advocates of techno-eugenics
MORE LINKS TO NEWS ABOUT HUMAN GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES
NOTICES AND REQUEST FROM THE EDITORS
Atlantic Monthly article on corporate-university ties
February 28, 2000
Thanks to signators of the Open Letter
Agenda of the Symposium on Science, Ethics and Society: The 25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference
UPCOMING EVENT
Annas, Caplan, and Elias criticize Geron's Ethics Advisory Board
Wired Magazine: Prestigious researchers at Extropy Institute conference
NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
February 4, 2000
RECENT EVENTS
The Asilomar 25th anniversary symposium, the "Symposium on Science, Ethics and Society," will be held February 15-17 in Pacific Grove, CA.
AAAS Symposium: "Changing Our Genetic Future Through Germline Intervention," Washington DC, Monday, February 21
"The New Human Genetic Technologies and Social Justice," Santa Cruz, CA, Wednesday March 1
New Scientist: "The Last Taboo"
Lord Robert Winston: "Genetically Modified Babies Inevitable"
Charles Murray: "Deeper into the Brain"
Richard Hayes: "In the Pipeline: Genetically Modified Humans?"
International Network on Bioethics and Disability
December 26, 1999
A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
January 27 California State Human Cloning Advisory Committee
February 15-17 Symposium on Science and Ethics in Society: The 25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference (Pacific Grove, CA)
February 21 AAAS Symposium: "Changing Our Genetic Future Through Germline Intervention" (Washington DC)
March 25-27 Biodevastation 4 (Boston, MA)
OTHER NEWS AND POINTERS
November 21, 1999
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
Anti-eugenics protest in London at Galton Society
John Horgan calls techno-eugenic predictions "irresponsible"
New article on human genetic engineering by Leon Kass
Time magazine provides forum for designer baby advocates
Developments in research on artificial chromosomes
Francis Fukuyama: The end of (human) history, reconsidered
Bioethicist Arthur Caplan predicts designer babies
Lester Thurow advocates genetic enhancement
German philosophers debate eugenic engineering
October 4, 1999
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
ASILOMAR 2
DER SPIEGEL COVER STORY
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS PROMOTING TECHNO-EUGENICS
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OPPOSING TECHNO-EUGENICS
September 10, 1999
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