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

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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

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

Patents & Other IP

Biopolitical Times

How Can We Assess Public Opinion?

By Pete Shanks | 07.29.2022

Image by Avopeas, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that it would be irresponsible to perform...

Global Governance

How Will the Dobbs Decision Affect Assisted Reproduction?

By Emma McDonald | 07.15.2022

photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

The Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturned Roe v. Wade...

U.S. Federal

Assume a Spherical Cow …

By Pete Shanks | 07.14.2022

Several new opinion polls on human biotechnology issues have recently come to our attention and two of them are discussed...

Human Genetic Modification

News

Reproductive rights have never been secure. Ask Black women.

By Fabiola Cineas , Vox | 07.13.2022

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

Fertility Medicine After Roe

By Nairi Shirinian and Meghna Mukherjee, Ms. Magazine | 07.13.2022

It’s no coincidence that the world’s first IVF baby was born just five years after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. IVF, or in vitro fertilization, is often mistakenly thought to be irrelevant to abortion debates. After all, people spend...

U.S. Federal

Edits to a cholesterol gene could stop the biggest killer on earth

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 07.12.2022

A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood cholesterol, a step that may foreshadow wide use of the technology to prevent heart attacks.

The experiment, part of a...

Human Genetic Modification

Secrecy: A demon of gene therapy’s past bedevils its future

By Eric B. Kmiec, Stat | 07.11.2022

Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough treatments. Then it was almost instantly derailed by the death of an 18-year-old clinical trial volunteer named Jesse Gelsinger after he received a genetically engineered...

Human Genetic Modification

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