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

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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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Sperm donation is largely unregulated, but that could soon change as lawsuits multiply

By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation | 01.18.2022

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When Wendy and Janet Norman...

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Artificial intelligence can discriminate on the basis of race and gender, and also age

By Charlene Chu, Kathleen Leslie, Rune Nyrup, and Shehroz Khan, The Conversation | 01.18.2022

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We have accepted the use of artificial intelligence (AI)...

A "Post-Human" Future?

NHS pilots genetic testing to predict risk of heart disease

By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.17.2022

A world-first pilot of predictive genetic testing aiming to identify those at high risk of cardiovascular disease is under way...

Policies

The legacy of eugenics at U.Va.

By Jack Morgan, The Cavalier Daily | 01.17.2022

In a majority opinion written in 1927 for the Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell...

U.S. States

Opinion: Here are some questions about the pig heart transplant that people actually should be asking

By Arthur Caplan, Laura Kimberly, Brendan Parent, and Tamar Schiff, The Washington Post | 01.14.2022

Arthur Caplan, Laura Kimberly, Brendan Parent and Tamar Schiff are members of the transplant ethics and policy working group in...

Animal Biotechnologies

New infographic highlights ethical issues ‘on the horizon’ in biology and medicine

By The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, The Nuffield Council on Bioethics News | 01.13.2022

Would the use of artificial wombs during pregnancy change the nature of parenthood? Can genomic analysis be used to accurately...

Genetic Selection

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...

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...

Society