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

She Has Stem Cells in Her Crosshairs

By Elizabeth Preston, NEO.LIFE | 08.05.2021

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In 2017, Agnieszka Czechowicz watched a four-year-old girl sleeping soundly in a California hospital...

Stem Cells

These Algorithms Look at X-Rays—and Somehow Detect Your Race

By Tom Simonite, Wired | 08.05.2021

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Millions of dollars are being spent to develop artificial intelligence...

A "Post-Human" Future?

Women protesting with signs that read "stop abortion bans"

The governor was right to veto a dangerous NC abortion bill

By Rebecca Todd Peters, The Charlotte Observer | 08.04.2021

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The N.C. legislature is soon expected to vote on whether to override or uphold...

U.S. States

How ‘race-norming’ was built into the NFL concussion settlement

By Will Hobson, The Washington Post | 08.02.2021

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CHANDLER, Ariz. — At first glance, Rick Cunningham looks ...

Arts & Culture

The next debate on embryo science

By Editorial, Nature Biotechnology | 08.02.2021

A longstanding prohibition against culturing human embryos for more than 14 days is now open for discussion, according to revised...

Stem Cells

Countries with a cultural preference for sons likely to lose another 4.7 million girls by 2030

By Emily Henderson, News Medical | 07.31.2021

Countries with a skewed sex ratio at birth, because of a cultural preference for sons, are set to ‘lose’ another...

Policies

Genetic Testing ‘Strongly Recommended’ For Kids With Intellectual Disability

By Michelle Diament , Disability Scoop | 07.30.2021

A new recommendation from a leading medical association is urging children with intellectual disability, developmental delay and other congenital anomalies...

Disability Rights

The nature (and nurture) of IQ

By Meredith Wadman, Science | 07.30.2021

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In July 1934, psychologist Harold Skeels evaluated...

Bioethics