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

Kazuto Kato: the ethics of editing humanity

By Gary Humphreys, Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 09.01.2021

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Gary Humphreys talks to Kazuto Kato about the...

Human Genetic Modification

We Haven’t Really Cracked the Code of Life

By Jag Bhalla, Issues in Science and Technology | 09.01.2021

To say that scientists now understand life’s “code” is a stretch. So, from the very title of Walter Isaacson’s latest...

Society

CRISPR-Based Therapeutics Blaze an In Vivo Path to the Clinic

By Ashleen Knutsen, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 09.01.2021

Therapeutic applications of genome editing were envisioned at least as early as the mid-1990s, when the first sequence-specific genome editing...

Human Genetic Modification

What’s next for lab-grown human embryos?

By Kendall Powell, Nature | 08.31.2021

It was day 13 in a set of experiments in Ali Brivanlou’s laboratory and he had an agonizing task ahead...

Animal Biotechnologies

New gene therapies may soon treat dozens of rare diseases, but million-dollar price tags will put them out of reach for many

By Kevin Doxzen, The Conversation | 08.31.2021

Zolgensma – which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay...

Human Genetic Modification

Rogue Stem Cell Clinics, CIRM and the Feds

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.31.2021

The California stem cell agency has posted a bit of a roundup on the state of regulatory affairs concerning what...

Stem Cells

13X Paralympic Medalist from Team USA, Tatyana McFadden

Strides made but stigmas remain: Japan hesitant in embracing Paralympics

By Gavin Blair, The Guardian | 08.30.2021

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When the Tokyo ...

Public Opinion

Japan to allow wider preimplantation genetic testing of eggs in IVF

By Mie Sakamoto, Kyodo News | 08.29.2021

Testing of fertilized eggs during in-vitro fertilization treatment to identify genetic diseases before pregnancy will be expanded to cover conditions...

Assisted Reproduction