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...

Policies

How Biotech Crops Can Crash—and Still Never Fail

By Aniket Aga, Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Scientific American | 12.27.2021

The United Nations Food Systems Summit held last September was eclipsed by a powerful countermobilization effort led by farmers and...

Biotech & Pharma

A Popular Test Claims to Boost I.V.F. Success. The Science Is Unclear.

By Amy Klein, The New York Times | 12.18.2021

For patients undergoing in vitro fertilization, there is a common test to help determine the best time to transfer the...

Assisted Reproduction

Stem cell agency: Following the money — and its performance

By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 12.17.2021

One year ago this month, a $5.5 billion wave washed over California’s ambitious stem cell agency and left it refreshed...

Policies

Rushing Quebec’s Bill 2 risks leaving many voices unheard

By Alana Cattapan, Vanessa Gruben, Stefanie Carsley and Angela Cameron, CTV News | 12.14.2021

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Last month, the Quebec government introduced Bill 2, which aims to comprehensively amend Quebec’s...

Policies

Journal Retracts Paper Based On DNA of Vulnerable Chinese Minorities

By Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept | 12.13.2021

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A highly regarded scientific journal has retracted a paper based on...

Society

The Eugenics Movement in Retrospect

By Rob DeSalle, Natural History | 12.11.2021

One hundred years ago, the Second International Congress of Eugenics was held from September 22-28, 1921, at the American Museum...

U.S. States

On the legacies of eugenics

By Marius Turda, Challenging Pseudoscience (Apple Podcast) | 12.10.2021

This episode is a recording of a talk given by medical historian, Marius Turda, at the Royal Institution in September...

U.S. States

The big idea: how much do we really want to know about our genes?

By Daniel M Davis, The Guardian | 12.06.2021

While at the till in a clothes shop, Ruby received a call. She recognised the woman’s voice as the genetic...

Genetic Selection