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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

Did this virus come from a lab? Maybe not — but it exposes the threat of a biowarfare arms race

By Sam Husseini, Salon | 04.24.2020

There has been no scientific finding that the novel coronavirus was bioengineered, but its origins are not entirely clear. Deadly pathogens discovered...

Fertility clinics push back

By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech Newsletter | 04.21.2020

Several of the fertility world's top advisory bodies have strongly urged fertility clinics to stop or severely scale back services...

Assisted Reproduction

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Ethics and Global Governance of Human Germline Genome Editing: The Problem of Techno-Scientific Colonialist Paternalism

By Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez, CRISPR Journal (paywall) | 04.21.2020

Abstract

I want to enrich the debate about the ethics and governance of human germline editing (HGE) by emphasizing an...

Policies

Doctors facing grim choice over ventilators told to put patients with disabilities at the back of the line

By Deborah Hellman, The Conversation | 04.20.2020

As cases related to the novel coronavirus continue to strain hospitals, doctors face difficult choices about rationing scarce medical resources...

Bioethics

I Donated My DNA to Help Stop the Coronavirus

By Ronnie S. Stangler, Medium | 04.19.2020

Last night, I entered intimate personal health information into a database that can be accessed by anyone. This is not...

Genomics