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

For now, stem cells for Covid-19 are mostly a shot in the dark

By Paul Knoepfler, STAT | 06.25.2021

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The uncertainty over how to effectively treat Covid-19 is proving to be an...

Stem Cells

Britney Spears’ Reproductive Freedom is a Disability Rights Issue

By Zoe Brennan-Krohn and Rebecca McCray, ACLU | 06.25.2021

There were many shocking moments in Britney Spears’ 24-minute statement calling for an end to her conservatorship, delivered Wednesday to...

Perspectives

When a child is born: the film lifting the lid on surrogacy, race and disability

By Cath Clarke, The Guardian | 06.24.2021

There are two films called The Surrogate. The first is a made-for-TV movie about an obsessive fan who cons her...

Society

The ‘race realist’ on campus

By Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.24.2021

With one painful exception that she still thinks about today, Marisol Schowengerdt enjoyed her classes at Cal State East Bay.

She...

Eugenics

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ISSCR: grave omission of age limit for embryo research

By Josephine Johnston, Françoise Baylis, & Henry T. Greely, Nature | 06.22.2021

We are researchers with differing views on the ethics of stem-cell and embryo research who nonetheless share deep concerns about...

Policies

ISSCR: grave omission of age limit for embryo research

By Josephine Johnston, Françoise Baylis & Henry T. Greely, Nature | 06.22.2021

We are researchers with differing views on the ethics of stem-cell and embryo research who nonetheless share deep concerns about...

Stem Cells

MPs urge Government to review regulations for direct-to-consumer genetic testing

By Science and Technology Committee, UK Parliament | 06.22.2021

The popularity of genomics tests sold directly to consumers has increased in recent years, with products focusing on ancestry, health...

Genomics

In world of stem cell research, ‘UC Caucus’ reigns supreme

By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 06.21.2021

They could be called the “UC Caucus,” although that may presume too much. Nonetheless, they come from an institution that...

Stem Cells