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A Pronatalist Vision of Humanity’s Future

By Shrese | 01.07.2025
Biopolitical Times

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A recent undercover investigation by the UK organization Hope not Hate initially focused on far-right “race science” movements in Europe and the US. But following an intriguing set of ideological and financial connections, the Hope not Hate infiltrator unexpectedly found himself face to face with a newer phenomenon: Simone and Malcolm Collins, an American couple who, along with Elon Musk, are...

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The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think.

By Sigal Samuel, Vox | 01.20.2025

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Photo "Elon Musk Presenting Tesla's Fully Autonomous Future" by  on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and...

Society

Briefly Noted: Eugenics in Nature

By Pete Shanks | 01.23.2025
Biopolitical Times

On January 8, 2025, Nature published an article titled Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine? (The term...

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Scientists call for revision on South Africa’s guidelines on genome engineering

By Di Caelers, Nature | 01.14.2025

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Updates to South African research ethics guidelines which recognize significant potential for treating genetic diseases through heritable human genome editing...

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Biopolitical Times

Briefly Noted: Eugenics in Nature

By Pete Shanks | 01.23.2025

On January 8, 2025, Nature published an article titled Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine? (The term...

Policies

A Pronatalist Vision of Humanity’s Future

By Shrese | 01.07.2025

Photo by TeggorMindFish via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

A recent...

Genetic Selection

Some Notable 2024 Blog Posts

By CGS | 01.01.2025

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Following an annual CGS tradition, we present a selection of our favorite Biopolitical Times posts...

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The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think.

By Sigal Samuel, Vox | 01.20.2025

Photo "Elon Musk Presenting Tesla's Fully Autonomous Future" by  on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

There’s a dominant narrative in the media about why tech billionaires are sucking up to Donald Trump: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and...

Society

Aspiring Parents Have a New DNA Test to Obsess Over

By Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic | 01.15.2025

The first time Jamie Cassidy was pregnant, the fetus had a genetic mutation so devastating that she and her husband, Brennan, decided to terminate in the second trimester. The next time they tried for a baby, they weren’t taking chances...

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Scientists call for revision on South Africa’s guidelines on genome engineering

By Di Caelers, Nature | 01.14.2025

Updates to South African research ethics guidelines which recognize significant potential for treating genetic diseases through heritable human genome editing (HHGE) must be urgently revised, a research society says. 

The Southern African Society for Human Genetics (SASHG) has called for...

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Gene editor may have cured infant of a deadly metabolic disorder

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 01.14.2025

A little-known gene editor, tested with help from a disgraced gene therapist seeking redemption, may have cured a 1-year-old boy of a deadly metabolic disorder. Announced last week by a company developing the therapy, the result could be the first...

Human Genetic Modification

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