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Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is it ethical?

By Philip Ball, The Guardian [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 10.17.2021

Aggregated News

The birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in 1978 provoked a media frenzy. In comparison, a little girl named Aurea born by IVF in May 2020 went almost unnoticed. Yet she represents a significant first in assisted reproduction...

Genomics

Updated Map of US Surrogacy Policies Highlights Patchwork of State Regulation

By Emily Galpern | 11.17.2021
Biopolitical Times
The United States does not regulate surrogacy at a federal level, leaving each state to determine its own policies. The situations range from states with no laws that address surrogacy to those that prohibit it completely: some states have detailed legislation that addresses numerous aspects of surrogacy contracts...
Policies

The Planning Committee for the Third Summit: Now Who Decides?

By Pete Shanks | 11.18.2021
Biopolitical Times

A few months ago, under the title “Heritable Human Genome Editing: Who Decides Who Decides?” we analyzed the...

Policies

Campus professor Osagie K. Obasogie elected as member to the National Academy of Medicine

By Lydia Sidhom, The Daily Californian [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.20.2021

Aggregated News

UC Berkeley professor of law and bioethics Osagie K. Obasogie was elected for membership to the National Academy of Medicine...

Civil Society

Biopolitical Times

Remembering Marsha Saxton

By Emily Galpern | 01.13.2022

The Center for Genetics and Society mourns the loss of colleague Marsha Saxton, who died December 1, 2021. Marsha was...

Disability Rights

A Further Note on the Upcoming Human Genome Editing Summit

By Katie Hasson | 01.13.2022

The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, scheduled for March 7-9 in London, has now been postponed to...

Policies

What the Backlash against the NYT Investigation of Prenatal Testing Gets Wrong

By Pete Shanks | 01.13.2022

From the New York Times front page

On January 1st, The New York Times website prominently featured a substantial piece...

Assisted Reproduction

News

Whose baby is this? IVF mix-ups & other reasons to change the law

By Ellen Trachman, TEDxMileHigh | 01.08.2022

What happens when a couple freezes embryos to conceive a baby later, but they get divorced? What if egg and sperm samples get mixed up? Or worse – what if an embryo is implanted in the wrong woman? Thanks to...

Policies

The Questions We Should Really Be Asking After Reading the NY Times Article About Prenatal cfDNA Screening For Microdeletions

By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 01.08.2022

As the genetic counseling world knows all too well, the New York Times recently published a story about prenatal cfDNA screening for chromosomal microdeletion syndromes. The gist of the article is that screening for microdeletions has a high number...

Society

How Widespread Prenatal Testing for Microdeletions Can Hurt Patients and Why the Genetic Testing Industry Needs More Accountability

By Katie Stoll, Gene Cuisine | 01.04.2022

The New York Times published an important investigative piece this week, exploring concerns about expanded prenatal genetic screening. Specifically, the article focuses on the practice of prenatal screening for the possibility of a microdeletion condition in the fetus. The authors...

Biopolitics

California Will Compensate Survivors of Eugenics’ Forced Sterilizations

By S.E. Williams, Black Voices News | 01.03.2022

On New Year’s Eve California Governor Gavin Newsom announced another important action in the state’s ongoing effort to redress historical wrongs. 

This time the focus is on the victims of the state’s participation in the national Eugenics movement which resulted...

Society

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