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Lab-grown babies on the horizon: how IVG could transform human reproduction

By Willow Shah-Neville, Labiotech [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.22.2023

Aggregated News

Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this area kicked off around a decade ago, and is still largely experimental in humans. But, the technique used to potentially...

Human Genetic Modification

Ineffective Altruism, Apocalypse, and Human Genetic Enhancement

By Pete Shanks | 07.21.2023
Biopolitical Times

"File:View of Nauru airport.jpg" by Cedric Favero
is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The first part of the title is shamelessly borrowed from Quartz, which published this on July 21, 2023:

Sam Bankman-Fried seemed unprepared for the end of his FTX crypto exchange, but he’d certainly started planning for the end of civilization. 

Well, of course, if you are committed to “longtermism” and “effective altruism” then such contingency planning seems, at first blush, to be rather...

Policies

“It’s a Way of Reparations”: Why Henrietta Lacks Settlement Matters for Bioethics & Racial Justice

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | 08.07.2023

Aggregated News

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her...

U.S. States

The American Society of Human Genetics Struggles to Face Its Past

By Robert Resta and Diane B. Paul, The DNA Exchange | 02.15.2023

Aggregated News

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) recently released Facing Our History – Building An Equitable Future Initiative, a...

Genomics

Biopolitical Times

Another profile of the CRISPR-babies guy: What The New Yorker adds to the story—and leaves out

By Katie Hasson | 09.29.2023

Any coverage of heritable genome editing since 2018 has to include discussion of the reckless experiments of He Jiankui and...

Global Governance

Natalism and Hipster Eugenics

By Pete Shanks | 09.21.2023

Front page of the Natal Conference website

Last November, this blog published a piece with the title “Hipster Eugenics...

Global Governance

Book Review: Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

By Gabriela Corona Valencia, Guest Contributor | 08.22.2023

book cover photo from University of Nebraska Press

How responsible are we for the supremacist legacies left behind by our...

Society

News

Stop overselling GM on yield, warns plant breeding researcher

By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 09.26.2023

Photo by Shuken Nakamura on Unsplash

A young researcher studying plant breeding for her PhD at Cornell University has just published a paper warning GMO promoters not to make overhyped claims about supposed yield gains from GM crops. Merritt Khaipho-Burch...

Patents & Other IP

Designer babies

By Elayne Clift, Rutland Herald | 09.23.2023

A recent press release I received got me thinking about how much we really care about kids. The press alert came from the Coalition to Stop Designer Babies, which is organizing internationally to oppose efforts by some scientists and would-be...

Human Genetic Modification

‘The state says our kids don’t exist’ — how LGBT life is changing in Italy

By Sofia Bettiza, BBC News | 09.23.2023

Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy

Italian authorities are bringing in new measures targeting LGBT families and making it harder for them to have children. Many same-sex parents feel that a new law, which would make it illegal to have...

Biopolitics

China’s quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race

By Joby Warrick and Cate Brown, The Washington Post | 09.22.2023

Most of Europe was in lockdown in April 2020 when a plane arrived in the Serbian capital bearing a well-timed gift from the People’s Republic of China. Inside was a Chinese invention called the Fire-Eye, a sophisticated portable lab that...

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