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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

Stem cell companies sell hope with unproven medicine for COVID-19

By Brent Schrotenboer, USA Today | 06.22.2020

In a message posted on Facebook in early May, a startup company in San Diego tried to sell a big...

Stem Cells

Before genetically modified mosquitoes are released, we need a better EPA

By Natalie Kofler and Jennifer Kuzma , Boston Globe | 06.22.2020

While the attention of the American public has rightfully been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, its associated racial disparities, and...

Synthetic Biology

X chromosome against the background of DNA

‘The wondrous map’: how unlocking human DNA changed the course of science

By Robin McKie , The Guardian | 06.21.2020

Twenty years ago this week, an international group of scientists announced it had put together the first genetic blueprint of...

Genomics

UCL denames buildings named after eugenicists

By University College London , UCL News | 06.19.2020

The decision was made by UCL’s President & Provost Professor Michael Arthur and ratified by Council - the university’s governing...

Eugenics

China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Equipment

By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times | 06.17.2020

The police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic...

Genetic Selection

EPA faces suit over plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes

By Rachel Franzin, The Hill | 06.15.2020

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing a lawsuit over its approval of a plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes...

Animal Biotechnologies

The stranded babies of Kyiv and the women who give birth for money

By Oksana Grytsenko, The Guardian | 06.15.2020

Some are crying in their cots; others are being cradled or bottle-fed by nannies. These newborns are not in the...

Assisted Reproduction

Hundreds of MSU professors, GEU call to remove VP of research Stephen Hsu

By Wendy Guzman, The State News | 06.15.2020

The Michigan State University Graduate Employees Union and its coalition partners in the STEM community are calling for MSU to...

Genomics