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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

“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
DNA gel

The ethical landscape(s) of non-invasive prenatal testing in England, France and Germany: findings from a comparative literature review

By Adeline Perrot & Ruth Horn, European Journal of Human Genetics | 10.04.2021

Abstract

Since 2019, England, France and Germany have started offering NIPT as a publicly funded second-tier test for common chromosomal...

Genomics
Sue-meg State Park

California state park with ties to racist past will now be called by Indigenous name

By Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times | 10.04.2021

Photo by Kirt Edblom on Flickr

Skip Lowry learned the Indigenous dances of the Yurok people as a child by...

Civil Society
Microscope images of HeLa cells colored in green and blue

Family of Henrietta Lacks files suit against biotech company for using famous ‘HeLa’ cells without permission

By Meredith Cohn and Hallie Miller, The Baltimore Sun | 10.04.2021

Family members of Henrietta Lacks filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. biotech giant Thermo Fisher Scientific accusing the company...

Biotech & Pharma
Free Britney Spears protest

Britney’s conservatorship is one example of how the legacy of eugenics in the US continues to affect the lives of disabled women

By Michaela Kathleen Curran, The Conversation | 10.01.2021

Photo by Mike Maguire on Flickr

Britney Spears has been locked in a court battle 13 years in the making...

Media Coverage

Will Sociogenomics Reduce Social Inequality?

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center | 09.30.2021

In her new book, Kathryn Paige Harden is full of hope that insights from genetics will become powerful tools...

Bioethics

The chimaera challenge

By Liam Drew, Nature | 09.29.2021

It’s 2036, and you have kidney failure. Until recently, this condition meant months or years of gruelling dialysis, while you...

Animal Biotechnologies

Don’t Count On Woolly Mammoths To Save The Planet

By Frederick Hewett, WBUR | 09.27.2021

“What we need to fight climate change is woolly mammoths” — said no climate scientist, ever.

But that’s not deterring a hotshot...

Stem Cells
autism in the UK

High-profile autism genetics project paused amid backlash

By Katharine Sanderson, Nature | 09.27.2021

A large, UK-based study of genetics and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been suspended, following criticism that it failed to...

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