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Our Work During the COVID-19 Crisis

By Marcy Darnovsky | 03.24.2020
Biopolitical Times
Our focus these days—like yours, I imagine—is largely on the spread of COVID-19 and its dire consequences. But our work goes on. With our staff working remotely, we’re continuing to keep a close eye on developments related to human biotechnologies
Human Rights

Disability Rights, Triage and Countering Eugenics in a Time of Pandemic

By Pete Shanks | 04.18.2020
Biopolitical Times
Nothing is normal. Nothing is stable. Nothing is entirely predictable, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, except that eugenics will raise its ugly head.
Bioethics

Movie Review: Human Nature

By Pete Shanks | 04.02.2020
Biopolitical Times

Human Nature, a documentary about gene editing that had been due to open in many theaters in March, is...

Genomics

Social Distancing with Extra Time? Catch Up on These Free CGS Resources.

By CGS Staff | 03.24.2020
Biopolitical Times

During this time of social distancing, many people are off work, working from home, or skipping events and obligations that...

Assisted Reproduction

Biopolitical Times

Surrogacy, Assisted Reproduction, and COVID: Stark Problems, Underlying Concerns

By Emily Galpern | 05.27.2020

A hotel in Kyiv is currently home to more than 100 stranded babies who were born to surrogates, and whose...

Assisted Reproduction

Is CIRM Doomed?

By Pete Shanks | 05.15.2020

Unless voters pass a proposition allocating new funding, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), established by a 2004...

Confronting Racist Eugenics in the Pandemic

By Pete Shanks | 05.06.2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting forms of discrimination that many well-meaning people have managed to ignore for many years. This...

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News

Addressing Racism’s Toll: My Minneapolis Experience

By Michele Goodwin, Ms. | 06.01.2020

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The past few days have been traumatizing for our nation, with the murder of George Floyd, gasping “I can’t breathe,” before taking his final breath. 

He would die in a scene horrifically reminiscent of Jim...

Eugenics

Qatar virus tracing app stirs rare privacy backlash

By Gregory Walton, AFP | 05.24.2020

Doha (AFP) - Privacy concerns over Qatar's coronavirus contact tracing app, a tool that is mandatory on pain of prison, have prompted a rare backlash and forced officials to offer reassurance and concessions.

Like other governments around the world, Qatar...

Policies

'All the psychoses of US history': how America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead

By Lois Beckett, The Guardian | 05.21.2020

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Why do Americans represent less than 5% of the world’s population but nearly a third of the known coronavirus death toll? Not because of government incompetence, the Trump administration is arguing, but because Americans...

America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 05.20.2020

here was supposed to be a peak. But the stark turning point, when the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. finally crested and began descending sharply, never happened. Instead, America spent much of April on a disquieting plateau,...

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