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

We Have “Gifted” Enough: Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty in Precision Medicine

By Krystal S. Tsosie, Joseph M. Yracheta, Jessica A. Kolopenuk, and Janis Geary, The American Journal of Bioethics | 04.07.2021

^{Photo by Andrew James on Unsplash}

In “Obligations of the ‘Gift’: Reciprocity and Responsibility in Precision Medicine,” Lee (2021...

Society

She Gave Birth To Her Own Children, Then A Michigan Judge Ruled Her To Be A Surrogate

By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law [cites CGS] | 04.07.2021

A lot of surprising things happen when the use of assisted reproductive technology slams up against outdated family law doctrines...

U.S. States

Troubling podcast puts JAMA, the ‘voice of medicine,’ under fire for its mishandling of race

By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 04.06.2021

Weeks after it was scrubbed from the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, a disastrous podcast — whose host...

Bioethics

Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang

By Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker | 04.05.2021

I. HOME

When Anar Sabit was in her twenties and living in Vancouver, she liked to tell her friends that...

Eugenics

Harbingers of Things to Come in Gene Therapy

By Josh P. Roberts, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 04.02.2021

^{Photo by CDC on Unsplash}

It is one thing to anticipate what gene therapy will look like in 5 years...

Human Genetic Modification

What Is It to Be Human Anymore?

By Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy | 04.02.2021

This book is not for the faint of mind. Walter Isaacson is a great storyteller who has devoted his justly...

Society

Reparations for CA forced sterilization survivors: Support AB 1007

By Aminah Elster, The Daily Californian | 04.02.2021

Between 1909 and 1979, California forcibly sterilized over 20,000 people of color, people with disabilities and imprisoned people. Based on...

Civil Society

“Small” changes made with gene editing cause severe deformities in plants

By GMWatch | 04.01.2021

^{Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash}

Gene editing causes drastic unwanted effects in gene-edited plants including severe deformities, a new...

Genetic Selection