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The group behind Project 2025 wants a ‘Manhattan Project’ for more babies

By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post | 09.03.2025

The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing...

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Disgust, Horror, and “Elimination”: Trump and RFK Jr.’s Eugenicist Autism Conference

By Julie Métraux, Mother Jones | 09.23.2025

“Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much...

Bioethics

The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.06.2025

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

Genetic Selection

Who decides the future of humanity? SA’s genome editing guidelines spark global concern

By Vuyile Madwantsi, Independent Online | 08.22.2025

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

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‘It’s a Terrible Thing When a Grown Person Does Not Belong to Herself’

By Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine | 05.03.2022

Photo by Astaken on Flickr

On Feb. 24, in the early hours of a cold, dark morning in Lviv, two...

Other Countries
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As PopSci turns 150, we reflect on the highs and lows of our long history

By Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science | 05.02.2022

Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash

The work of creating science has been organized for centuries,” wrote Popular Science founder...

Eugenics
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Where Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Lives Today

By Cara J. Chang, Isabella B. Cho, Ella L. Jones, And Monique I. Vobecky, The Harvard Crimson | 05.02.2022

Photo by Manu Ros on Unsplash

Harvard’s campus is replete with the names of prominent historical figures who were essential...

Perspectives
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Our Obsession with Ancestry Has Some Twisted Roots

By Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker | 05.02.2022

A mile into Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, heading east from Salt Lake City toward the Wasatch ski slopes, several concrete...

U.S. States
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Substituting genetic ancestry for race in research? Not so fast

By Anna C. F. Lewis, STAT | 05.02.2022

Race, widely used as a variable across biomedical research and medicine, is an appropriate proxy for racism — but not...

Genomics
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Australia Moves Ahead Cautiously With '3-Parent IVF'

By Emily Mullin, Wired | 04.29.2022

Photo by Michael on Unsplash

Australia has become the second country after the United Kingdom to legalize a fertility procedure...

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Not the full story: Seeking eugenics history in Yale’s science curriculum

By Tigerlily Hopson, Yale News | 04.29.2022

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

According to students and professors, the mark of eugenics has not left campus —...

Public Opinion
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China focuses on ethics to deter another ‘CRISPR babies’ scandal

By Smriti Mallapaty, Nature | 04.27.2022

"China Flag" by BWJones is
marked with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

China’s powerful State Council is calling on research...

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