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

Graphic of a test tube, DNA, and 5 people

Heritable human genome editing: Who decides? Science or society?

By Françoise Baylis, Journal of Medical Ethics Blog | 10.11.2021

Many describe the move from bench to bedside (from basic science to therapeutic or preventive applications) as a sprint –...

Human Genetic Modification

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‘Lies and trauma’: donor-conceived adults are still haunted by their origins

By Gary Nunn, The Guardian | 10.09.2021

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Brendan Ritter, 22, recently discovered he was donor conceived.

When he was told, his...

Genomics

Placque-ridden neurons in a brain affected by Alzheimer's

The most common Alzheimer’s risk gene may also protect against memory loss

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 10.07.2021

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A common genetic variant called APOE4 raises a person’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease...

Genetic Selection

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Genetic discrimination: The next great health battle likely to wash up on NZ shores

By Chelsea Daniels, NewstalkZB | 10.06.2021

There’s growing concern about genetic discrimination in New Zealand – and the lack of Government intervention in this fast-moving field. ...

Policies

Regulating Assisted Reproduction

By Sandy Hausman, WTVF Radio IQ | 10.06.2021

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The first American test tube baby was born here in Virginia forty years ago, but the...

U.S. States

A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About to Become a Very Big Business

By Anna Merlan, Vice | 10.06.2021

When desperate parents are looking for medical treatment for their kids, especially their autistic kids, they often do two things...

Stem Cells

Francis Collins, Who Guided N.I.H. Through Covid-19 Crisis, Is Exiting

By Noah Weiland and Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.05.2021

WASHINGTON — Dr. Francis S. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, holed up in an Airbnb in...

Society

At-home genetic testing for cancer and other disease risk is booming: Should you try it?

By A. Pawlowski, Today | 10.04.2021

Breast Cancer Awareness Month will cause many women to worry about their hereditary risk for developing the disease, especially if...

Society