News

23andMe’s DNA database is up for sale. Who might want it, and what for?

By Anumita Kaur [cites CGS’ Katie Hasson], The Washington Post | 03.25.2025

Genetic information company 23andMe has said that it is headed to bankruptcy court, raising questions for what happens to the DNA shared by millions of people with the company via saliva test kits.

Sunday’s announcement clears the way for a new...

Genomics

Center for Genetics and Society, et al. vs. Rob Bonta, et al.

By ACLU Northern California | 03.21.2025

In a long-standing lawsuit, the ACLU, on behalf of partner organizations and an individual taxpayer, is challenging the state of California for its retention of genetic samples and profiles from people arrested but never convicted of a felony.  

The complaint...

U.S. States

The couple who want to make America procreate again

By Anne Branigin, The Washington Post [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.04.2025

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

It's a...

Genetic Selection

Should We Use Gene Editing to Create Super Babies?

By Staff [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], The New York Times Upfront | 02.17.2025

A young couple wants to have a baby, but they’re worried it’ll carry a disease that runs in the family...

Bioethics
He Jiankui

Chinese Scientist Ostracized Over Gene-Edited Babies Seeks Comeback

By Liyan Qi and Jonathan Cheng, The Wall Street Journal | 03.26.2025

photo via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by 3.0

Chinese scientist He Jiankui set off global outrage and landed in prison after...

Other Countries
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Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine

By Carsten T. Charlesworth, Henry T. Greely, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MIT Technology Review | 03.25.2025

Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for human disease? Why...

Society
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What Do We Owe This Cluster of Cells?

By Anna Louie Sussman, The New York Times | 03.25.2025

On June 24, 2022, the same day the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...

Human Genetic Modification
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With 23andMe in ‘financial distress,’ California official issues alert to customers

By Jason Green, The Mercury News | 03.24.2025

With genetic testing company 23andMe facing an increasingly uncertain future, California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday reminded customers...

U.S. States
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Tennessee Senate passes bill to protect access to IVF

By Natalie Richardson, PET | 03.24.2025

The Fertility Treatment and Contraceptive Protection Act passed unanimously in the Tennessee Senate and aims to protect access to IVF...

Policies
Promise and Peril of CRISPR cover

We Need to Talk About CRISPR

By Staff, The Medicine Maker | 03.21.2025

"The Promise and Peril of CRISPR" cover by Johns Hopkins University Press

As a paediatrician taking care of children with...

Global Governance
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Teen’s death following Sarepta DMD gene therapy underscores a risk seen for decades

By Michael Gibney, PharmaVoice | 03.20.2025

The death this week of a teenager receiving Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapy Elevidys for Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a tragic...

Patents & Other IP
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Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End

By Frank Landymore, Futurism | 03.18.2025

You can only throw so much money at a problem.

This, more or less, is the line being taken by...

A "Post-Human" Future?