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Developments in gene-editing technology raise new ethical questions

By [cites CGS' Katie Hasson], KCBS Radio | 11.19.2025

This is Ask An Expert, where every weekday at 9:20am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields. Today: Gene-editing technology allows scientists to work with DNA in unprecedented ways, but there are larger scientific...

U.S. Federal

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.

By Emily Glazer, Katherine Long, Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 11.08.2025

For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.

Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup—called...

Genetic Selection

Who Gets to Procreate and Parent? A Black Feminist Critique of the Pronatalist Agenda

By Jallicia A. Jolly, Sydney Curtis and Nicole Sessions, Ms. Magazine | 10.17.2025

Pronatalism is an old idea with roots in eugenics and nationalism, that is now fashionable among far-right influencers and policymakers. They talk...

U.S. Federal

Does One Size Fit All?

By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

Society

No on Prop. 14; no need to replicate California's disappointing stem cell experiment

By Editorial Board, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.24.2020

Like MySpace, the Martha Stewart prosecution and American democratic norms, spending gobs of state money on stem cell research might...

U.S. States

The Long and Sordid History of Forced Sterilization Programs

By Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee, Zora | 09.23.2020

Charmaine Fuller Cooper was outraged — but not surprised — when she heard recent allegations that a Georgia detention center...

Perspectives

America's Ugly History With Selective Sterilization Against Women of Color

By Thelma Annan, Popsugar | 09.23.2020

Last week, Dawn Wooten became the latest whistleblower regarding the treatment of migrants inside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

Human Rights

Gene editing: Chinese scientists bring safer pig-to-human organ transplants one step closer to reality

By Coco Feng, South China Morning Post | 09.23.2020

A team led by Chinese researchers say they have succeeding in producing genetically modified pigs with cells that are more...

Animal Biotechnologies

‘I Have Been a Surrogate 3 Times, This Is What It's Like’

By Eloise Drane, Newsweek | 09.23.2020

I'm married with five children from a blended family with my current husband, and I've been a gestational surrogate three...

The racist and classist roots of standardized testing found a home at Stanford — and they still endure today

By Georgia Rosenberg, The Stanford Daily | 09.22.2020

As wealthy parents rush to hire teachers for private instruction while those with limited financial barriers choose to take time...

Society

Stranded babies, sobbing parents: Pandemic splits surrogates from families

By Agence France-Presse, Japan Times | 09.22.2020

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BEIJING – Cherry Lin wistfully strokes a one-piece baby outfit, fretting it may be too...

Assisted Reproduction

The slippery slope of the human gene editing debate

By John Evans, Oxford University Press Blog | 09.22.2020

The ethical debate about what is now called “human gene editing” (HGE) began sixty years ago. At the time, eugenicist...

Society