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Was Loving v. Virginia Really About Love?

By Osagie Obasogie, The Atlantic | 06.12.2017

Aggregated News

Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, but the issues involved in the case extended beyond its current popular understanding as a tribute to romance.

Interracial marriage is at a historic high. According...

Eugenics

Why reproductive justice is essential to understanding gene editing

By Victoria Massie | 06.06.2017
Biopolitical Times
On June 13, the Center for Genetics and Society, alongside Black Women for Wellness and In Our Own Voice National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, will be hosting the webinar, “Gene Editing and the Future of Reproductive Justice.”...
Civil Society

The Fertility Doctor Trying to Commercialize Three-Parent Babies

By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.13.2017

Op-Ed

A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant for $100,000.

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Biotech & Pharma

The Ongoing Tale About "The Handmaid's Tale"

By Ayesha Chatterjee | 05.26.2017
Biopolitical Times
With the wild popularity of the new TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” surrogacy is back in the limelight. The Hulu show, based on the cautionary...
Assisted Reproduction

Biopolitical Times

CGS Speaks on Human Germline Editing in India

By Leah Lowthorp | 06.08.2017

The Center for Genetics and Society’s (CGS) Program Manager and ACLS/Mellon Public Fellow, Leah Lowthorp, recently traveled to India to...

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Why reproductive justice is essential to understanding gene editing

By Victoria Massie | 06.06.2017

On June 13, the Center for Genetics and Society, alongside Black Women for Wellness and In Our Own Voice...

Civil Society

Questions about CRISPR Accuracy

By Pete Shanks | 06.02.2017

A very small study published in Nature Methods on May 29 found that supposedly precise gene editing may cause “...

Animal Biotechnologies

News

State Panel Approves Police Use Of Controversial Familial DNA Records Searches

By Nathan Tempey, Gothamist | 06.16.2017

Aggregated News

A state commission voted this morning to adopt a controversial policy allowing police to perform familial DNA searches in certain criminal cases.

The 9-2 vote by the state Commission on Forensic Science lets cops investigating cases that pose a public...

U.S. States

Baby Genome Sequencing for Sale in China

By Antonio Regelado, MIT Technology Review | 06.15.2017

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Chinese parents can now decode the genomes of their healthy newborns, revealing disease risks as well as the likelihood of physical traits like male-pattern baldness.

A Boston-based DNA sequencing company is offering to decode the complete genomes of newborns in...

Biotech & Pharma

The Fertility Doctor Trying to Commercialize Three-Parent Babies

By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.13.2017

Op-Ed

A startup called Darwin Life says it will use a controversial fertility technique to help forty-somethings get pregnant for $100,000.

A U.S. fertility doctor has started a company with a provocative vision for older women: become pregnant by having their DNA...

Biotech & Pharma

A Controversial Study Is Tearing the CRISPR World Apart

By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 06.12.2017

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When people talk about the gene-editing technology CRISPR, it’s usually accompanied by adjectives like “revolutionary” or “world-changing.” For this reason, it’s no surprise that a study out last month questioning just how game-changing the technology really...

Biopolitics

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