News

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

“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...

Policies
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Major CRISPR patent decision won’t end tangled dispute

By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 03.09.2022

Patent Law by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images

A long-running dispute between two groups that...

Policies
Woman receiving an ultrasound exam

Bias and Inaccuracy in Marketing Noninvasive Prenatal Tests

By Editors, The Hastings Center | 03.08.2022

Photo by Scott via wikimedia

Bias and inaccuracy are pervasive in the marketing of noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs), concludes an...

Other Countries
cattle

Gene-edited beef cattle get regulatory clearance in US

By Candice Choi, Associated Press | 03.07.2022

Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash

U.S. regulators on Monday cleared the way for the sale of beef from gene-edited...

Policies
Roll of hundred dollar bills

‘It’s a real-life Hunger Games’: a lifesaving drug costs $2m, but not every child can get it

By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 03.05.2022

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

Elizabeth Wraige remembers the first time she delivered the diagnosis. “Parents feel as if...

U.S. Federal
golden rice

Genetically Engineered Golden Rice: Real Hope or Misplaced Hype?

By Melissa Waddell, Living Non-GMO | 03.03.2022

The biotech industry loves to talk about precision. 

For example, advocates for genetic engineering and genetic modification have adopted the...

Synthetic Biology
a police officer types on a computer keyboard

SFPD says use of rape victim's DNA in unrelated criminal investigation 'should not have happened'

By J. R. Stone, ABC News | 03.03.2022

Wednesday night the San Francisco Police Chief responded to some tough questions from police commissioners about the use of DNA...

Policies
A doctor explaining an Xray to a patient

Rediscovering a language of healing that doesn’t require ‘cure’

By Lee D. Cooper, STAT News | 03.02.2022

"Doctor Patient and Xray" by andyde is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0.

I am a biotech investor and...

Human Genetic Modification
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First gene-editing treatment injected into the blood reduces toxic protein for up to 1 year

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 03.01.2022

Cas9 from CRISPR from NIH, CC BY-NC 2.0

The first team to disable a disease gene directly in a...

Human Genetic Modification