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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...

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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...

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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

Heritable human genome editing: the National Academies/Royal Society report

By Peter Mills, Nuffield Council on Bioethics | 09.08.2020

The Consensus Study Report of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing convened by the...

Human Genetic Modification

Probe Finds Orig3n Covid Test Put Nursing-Home Patients at Risk

By Kristen V Brown, Bloomberg | 09.08.2020

Poor laboratory practices at a Boston company that performed Covid-19 tests for dozens of nursing homes in Massachusetts put patients...

Society

$5.5 Billion California Stem Cell Campaign Intensifies, Voting Begins in One Month

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Project | 09.08.2020

California's 21 million voters soon will be receiving mail that tells them a $5.5 billion stem cell ballot measure is...

Policies

Weapons for when bigotry claims science as its ally

By Alondra Nelson, Nature | 09.07.2020

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (or Don’t) Say About Human Difference by Adam Rutherford, The...

Senegal's quiet COVID success: Test results in 24 hours, temperature checks at every store, no fights over masks

By Deirdre Shesgreen, USA Today | 09.06.2020

COVID-19 test results come back within 24 hours – or even faster. Hotels have been transformed into quarantine units. Scientists...

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The U.S. must do some heavy lifting to prepare for heritable genome editing

By Josephine Johston, STAT | 09.04.2020

Countries contemplating giving the green light to heritable genome editing received specific guidance from an international commission this week on...

Human Genetic Modification

Looking Back At The History Of Forced Sterilisation In India And Why It Concerns Us Even Today

By Zoon, Feminism In India | 09.04.2020

Earlier this year, shocking reports out of Madhya Pradesh highlighted the history of forced sterilisation in India. The state government...

The “staged rollout” of gene-modified babies could start with sickle-cell disease

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.03.2020

In a high-level report precipitated by the birth of CRISPR babies in China in 2018, scientists say the technology’s next...

Human Genetic Modification