CGS encourages responsible uses and effecitve governance of human genetic and assisted reproductive technologies

Featured

Reproductive rights have never been secure. Ask Black women.

By Fabiola Cineas , Vox | 07.13.2022

Aggregated News

Photo by Harrison Mitchell on Unsplash

To understand how the United States of America became a country without the constitutional right to abortion, look to the history of Black women’s long fight for reproductive autonomy.

The reproductive coercion of Black...

U.S. Federal

It’s Too Late to Protect Your Genetic Privacy. The Math Explaining Why.

By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal [Cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.20.2022

Aggregated News

Photo by National Human Research Institute on Flickr

Earlier this year, the police in Eugene, Ore., said they had identified a serial killer who committed three murders from 1986 to 1988. The man, John Charles Bolsinger, had escaped attention so...

Assisted Reproduction

Op-Ed: How IVF could be derailed by abortion restrictions

By Lisa C. Ikemoto, Los Angeles Times | 07.07.2022

Aggregated News

A few days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Boston IVF, a fertility company with centers in six...

Assisted Reproduction

“He is untouchable”: Penn officials allegedly cover up workplace abuse at James Wilson's Gene Therapy Program

By Katie Hasson | 05.11.2022
Biopolitical Times

 Rehua, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

James Wilson, director of the Gene Therapy Program at Penn’s...

Patents & Other IP

Biopolitical Times

Equity, Sovereignty, and Racial Justice: Beyond Access in Debates on Human Genome Editing

By Daisy Boyd | 09.22.2022

A stellar panel discussed how to bring a broader and more critical understanding of equity into current societal and public...

Human Genetic Modification

A Campaign to Legalize Heritable Genome Editing in the UK?

By Pete Shanks | 09.21.2022

A not-very-stealthy campaign appears to be setting the stage for authorizing heritable human genome editing (HGE) in the UK. The...

Assisted Reproduction

The ‘Perfect’ Baby?: The Dangers of Gene Editing in Assisted Reproduction

By Daisy Boyd | 08.18.2022

An online event — The ‘Perfect’ Baby?: The Dangers of Gene Editing in Assisted Reproduction  — brought together...

Assisted Reproduction

News

The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby

By Max Kozlov, Nature | 09.21.2022

“She has her mother’s eyes,” begins the advertisement, “but will she also inherit her breast cancer diagnosis?” The smooth voice in the video is promoting the services of Genomic Prediction, a US company that says it can help prospective parents...

Genetic Selection

No public funding for the biologization of social inequality!

By Staff, Gen-ethisches Netzwerk e.V. | 09.12.2022

Statement on the objectives and use of genetic data in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) of DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research)

Time and again there are attempts to look to genetics to find the causes of social inequality between...

Other Countries

I took an international trip with my frozen eggs to learn about the fertility industry

By Anna Louie Sussman, MIT Technology Review | 09.12.2022

USDA Gene Bank

Like me, my eggs were flying economy class. We—my dog Stewie and I—were in seat 8D, while 12 of my cryopreserved oocytes, four straws of three eggs each, had a window seat further back. They were ensconced...

Uncovering the genetic basis of mental illness requires data and tools that aren’t just based on white people – this international team is collecting DNA samples around the globe

By Hailiang Huang, The Conversation | 09.12.2022

Mental illness is a growing public health problem. In 2019, an estimated 1 in 8 people around the world were affected by mental disorders like depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. While scientists have long known that many of these disorders...

Genomics

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