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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

Lofty promises, limited results

By Erin Allday and Joaquin Palomino, San Francisco Chronicle [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.06.2018

It was an extraordinary political proposal: Approve a $3 billion bond measure to fund the cutting-edge science of stem cell...

U.S. States

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Genetic-testing technology is progressing rapidly. The rules need to keep up.

By Editorial Board, The Washington Post | 09.04.2018

THE SEARCH for the so-called Golden State Killer — who allegedly raped dozens of women and killed at least 12...

U.S. Federal

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Review - Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics

By Jordan Liz, Metapsychology Online Reviews [Review of the book edited by CGS' Osagie K Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.04.2018

From the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, to the FDA's approval of BiDil as the first race-specific medication to...

Bioethics

IVF children at far greater risk of dangerous high blood pressure, study suggests

By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph | 09.03.2018

Children born through IVF are six times more likely to suffer high blood pressure than naturally conceived children, putting them...

Assisted Reproduction

Spanish couples undergoing surrogacy processes left in legal limbo in Ukraine

By Silvia Blanco, El País | 08.31.2018

The Spanish Consulate in Kiev is examining the cases of 30 Spanish families currently in Ukraine and who are unable...

Other Countries

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Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code

By Andrew Smith, The Guardian | 08.30.2018

The 18th of March 2018, was the day tech insiders had been dreading. That night, a new moon added...

U.S. Federal

Sign at the March for Science reads "Science Makes America Great"

A Radical ’70s-Era Group Is Relaunching to Help Scientists Get Political Under Trump

By Rebecca Onion, Slate | 08.29.2018

Advocates of science are in a bad place right now. Some days, in this Second Year of Trump, scientism—a blanket...

Biopolitics

The Patients Who Don't Want to Be Cured

By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 08.29.2018

Jeff Johnson is 40 years old, and for all 40 of those years, he has been living with hemophilia. The...

Human Genetic Modification