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
courtroom

Conservative Judges Are Manipulating the History of Eugenics to Overturn Roe v. Wade

By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate | 04.15.2021

On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld an Ohio law that prohibits doctors from...

U.S. States
lab work

From gene bombs to classroom curriculum

By Svetlana Reiter, Alexander Ershov, and Farida Rustamova, Meduza | 04.14.2021

Until recently, the Russian authorities showed little interest in genetics. The breakthrough came in 2019, when the government allocated 127...

Human Genetic Modification

Big Tech’s guide to talking about AI ethics

By Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review | 04.13.2021

AI researchers often say good machine learning is really more art than science. The same could be said for effective...

Biotech & Pharma
Stained-glass window

Ronald Fisher Is Not Being ‘Cancelled’, But His Eugenic Advocacy Should Have Consequences

By Eric Michael Johnson, This View of Life | 04.12.2021

Photo by Schutz, stained glass designed by Maria McClafferty,
CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

While Black Lives Matter protests...

Genomics

The genetic mistakes that could shape our species

By Zaria Gorvett, BBC Future | 04.12.2021

He Jiankui seemed nervous.

At the time, he was an obscure researcher working at the Southern University of Science and Technology...

Human Genetic Modification
Uyghur Man

AI companies are enabling genocide in China

By Michael Chertoff and N. MacDonnell Ulsch, The Washington Post | 04.12.2021

"Uyghur man" by Evgeni Zotov is
licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the Uyghur people...

Other Countries
Bulletin board ads

The Egg Hunt

By Katherine Plumhoff, Teen Vogue | 04.09.2021

"Editing or Eggs" by daithifortytwo is
licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The first advertisement was slid under the door of...

Assisted Reproduction
human embryos

Researchers call for greater awareness of unintended consequences of CRISPR gene editing

By The Francis Crick Institute, Press Release | 04.09.2021

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed that CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing can lead to unintended mutations at the targeted...

Genetic Selection