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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...

Policies

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

By Julie Métraux, Mother Jones | 09.23.2025

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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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Trans men’s eggs have been matured in the lab—and could help them have children

By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 04.26.2022

Ovaries contain hundreds of thousands of underdeveloped eggs, held in a kind of suspended animation. Each month, one matures and...

Assisted Reproduction

The scientist who co-created CRISPR isn’t ruling out engineered babies someday

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 04.26.2022

The day I spoke to Jennifer Doudna was a tough day: the US Patent Office had just ruled against her...

Human Genetic Modification

Harvard pledges $100 million to atone for role in slavery

By Collin Binkley, The Columbian | 04.26.2022

BOSTON — Harvard University is vowing to spend $100 million to research and atone for its extensive ties with slavery...

Bioethics

test tubes holding sperm samples in a sperm bank

FDA Faces Push to Loosen Rules for Sperm Donations

By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 04.25.2022

After years of public criticism, the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 relaxed its rules regarding blood donation by men...

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Emory Drops Names of Eugenicist and Slavery Defender

By Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed | 04.25.2022

Emory University is removing the names of two men with ties to eugenics and slavery, dropping them from a research...

Bioethics

Generations later, the rights of donor-conceived people are becoming law

By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Hill | 04.23.2022

Colorado Senate president Steve Fenberg has just introduced groundbreaking legislation on the rights of donor conception. Although focused on Colorado...

Policies

It’s time for Congress to stop blocking mitochondrial replacement therapy

By Walter G. Johnson and Diana M. Bowman, STAT News | 04.22.2022

Australia has become the second country in the world to explicitly authorize and regulate mitochondrial replacement therapies, offering hope to...

Assisted Reproduction

How a Race-Based Medical Formula Is Keeping Some Black Men in Prison

By Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 04.22.2022

Last month, a federal judge in New Jersey considered the plea of a man who claimed his kidney problems made...

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