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

How the Los Angeles Times shilled for the racist eugenics movement

By Alexandra Minna Stern, Los Angeles Times | 02.28.2021

Last month, Caltech announced that the names of six men with historical ties to the university would be removed from...

U.S. Federal

Was “science” on the ballot?

By Stephen Hilgartner, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, Science | 02.26.2021

On 7 November 2020, moments before Kamala Harris and Joe Biden began their victory speeches, giant screens flanking the stage...

U.S. Federal

Decoding the CRISPR-baby stories

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, MIT Technology Review | 02.24.2021

The conventional story of CRISPR genome editing is one of heroic power and promise with an element of peril. That...

Human Genetic Modification

Response to Levrier re: Human Germline and Heritable Genome Editing: The Global Policy Landscape

By Marcy Darnovsky, Katie Hasson, and Timothy M. Krahn, The CRISPR Journal | 02.19.2021

In response to: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/crispr.2021.29121.gle

Levrier apparently misunderstands the nature of our project published in The CRISPR Journal in October 2020...

Policies

Sickle cell anemia blood under microscope

Novartis and the Gates Foundation aim to create a more practical gene therapy for sickle cell patients around the world

By Elizabeth Cooney, STAT | 02.17.2021

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Novartis and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are joining forces to discover...

Human Genetic Modification

Bluebird suspends studies of sickle cell gene therapy following cancer diagnoses in two more treated patients

By Adam Feuerstein, STAT | 02.16.2021

Bluebird Bio said Tuesday that it has suspended clinical trials involving its gene therapy for sickle cell disease after receiving...

Human Genetic Modification

Gene therapy trials for sickle cell disease halted after two patients develop cancer

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 02.16.2021

A company has stopped its clinical studies of a promising gene therapy for the blood disorder sickle cell disease after...

Human Genetic Modification

New ZIP code data reflects disparities in N.Y.C.’s vaccination effort, officials say.

By Mihir Zaveri, The New York Times | 02.16.2021

Officials in New York City released new data by ZIP codes on Tuesday that they said underscored troubling disparities in...

Bioethics