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

“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
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Texas OB/GYN: My Existence Is In Violation Of The New Abortion Law

By Michel Martin, NPR | 08.29.2021

Photo by Do512 on Flickr

Ahead of Texas' abortion ban going into effect on Sept. 1, NPR's Michel Martin speaks...

U.S. States
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The Census Has Revealed A More Multiracial U.S. One Reason? Cheaper DNA Tests

By Hansi Lo Wang, NPR | 08.28.2021

For about 1 in 10 people counted for last year's U.S. census, a single check box was not enough to...

Genomics
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Muir Woods park staff annotates own signs with historical corrections for racism, misogyny

By Ashley Harrell, SFGate | 08.26.2021

Photo by Matthew Dillon on Flickr

From far away, the caution tape and sheet of paper attached to an interpretative...

Civil Society
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Why Autistic People Are Worried by Spectrum 10K

By Robert Chapman, Psychology Today | 08.25.2021

"48:365 World Autism Awareness Day" 
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under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

As many people in the autistic...

A "Post-Human" Future?

The fertility industry is poorly regulated – and would-be parents can lose out on having children as a result

By Naomi Cahn and Dena Sharp, The Conversation | 08.23.2021

When embryologist Joseph Conaghan arrived at work at San Francisco’s Pacific Fertility Center on March 4, 2018, nothing seemed awry...

Assisted Reproduction
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Global Movement Aims To Improve Lives Of People With Disabilities

By Shaun Heasley, Disability Scoop | 08.23.2021

An ambitious campaign involving groups ranging from the Paralympics to the United Nations is kicking off with a goal of...

Perspectives

WHO guidelines on human genome editing: why countries need to follow them

By Sheetal Soni, The Conversation | 08.22.2021

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently called on countries to stop any research that might lead to the birth of...

Policies
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CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang's latest work delivers mRNA, gene therapy with a human protein

By Angus Liu, Fierce Biotech | 08.19.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY-SA 3.0 on Wikimedia Commons

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and existing gene therapies, including those...

Genetic Selection