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
Swimming in a lap pool

21st Century Olympic Doping

By Robin Donovan, NEO.LIFE | 07.22.2021

Photo by Serena Repice Lentini on Unsplash

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finally set to kick off this week...

Society
gray short-tailed opossum

In world’s first genetically engineered marsupials, scientists get a fresh window into human biology

By Megan Molteni, STAT | 07.21.2021

Photo licensed for use by CC BY-SA 2.5

When the pile of opossums arrived at John VandeBerg’s lab from the...

Animal Biotechnologies
California Victim Compensation Board

California Approves Reparations for Survivors of Forced Sterilization

By Mina Kim, KQED Forum | 07.21.2021

In the first half of the 20th century, California forcibly sterilized more than 20,000 people in state hospitals and other...

Eugenics

Jennifer Kahn’s ‘love GMOs’ article in NYT is propaganda, not journalism

By Stacy Malkan, U.S. Right to Know | 07.21.2021

Next week in Rome, world leaders will gather to discuss how to fix the food system amid one of the...

Genomics
eugenics tree

Survivors of California’s forced sterilizations: ‘It’s like my life wasn’t worth anything’

By Erin McCormick, The Guardian | 07.19.2021

It wasn’t until years after Kelli Dillon went into surgery while incarcerated in the California state prison system that she...

Eugenics

Texas Senate Bill Drops Teaching Requirement That Ku Klux Klan Is ‘Morally Wrong’

By Mary Papenfuss, Huffpost | 07.16.2021

In a new political low in Texas, the Republican-dominated state Senate has passed a bill to eliminate a...

U.S. States

CRISPR therapies march into clinic, but genotoxicity concerns linger

By Cormac Sheridan, Nature | 07.15.2021

A recent study has identified another potential hazard for developers of genome editing therapies based on CRISPR–Cas9. The double-strand DNA...

Human Genetic Modification
sickle cells

Sickle cell disease and a pivotal moment to end health inequality

By Ted W. Love, STAT | 07.15.2021

Covid-19 laid bare the long-standing vulnerability of minority and low-income communities in U.S. society and its health system even as...

Biotech & Pharma