News

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

Risk vs. Reward: Two womens health care professionals offer insight to the dangers of egg harvesting

By Judy Norsigian & Dr. Gary Richwald, Golden Gate Xpress | 08.29.2018

An April 25th article in the Golden Gate Xpress about donating eggs raises important issues for young women considering this...

Assisted Reproduction

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Building bioethics into the future of life sciences innovation

By Rick Mullin, Chemical and Engineering News | 08.27.2018

In 2015, Jennifer Doudna, codeveloper of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, convened a meeting in Napa, Calif., aimed at setting the...

Bioethics

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University accepted $458K from eugenics fund

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press | 08.24.2018

The University of Arizona has accepted years of funding from a foundation infamous for promoting research linking race and intelligence...

Eugenics

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When treating and researching infertility, let’s not forget the men

By Vardit Ravitsky and Sarah Kimmins, The Globe and Mail | 08.24.2018

Vardit Ravitsky is an associate professor of bioethics at the University of Montreal.

Sarah Kimmins is an associate professor at...

Assisted Reproduction

A Harsher Look at California's Stem Cell Program: No More Cash Without Changes

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report [cites CGS' Pete Shanks] | 08.23.2018

California's $3 billion stem cell experiment received a host of accolades last week at a state legislative hearing, but one...

U.S. States

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Ancestry Tests Pose a Threat to Our Social Fabric

By John Edward Terrell, Sapiens | 08.23.2018

I have never understood why anybody would think humans are by nature violent, warlike creatures. True, we have all surely...

Genomics

With Embryo Base Editing, China Gets Another Crispr First

By Megan Molteni, Wired | 08.21.2018

Scientists in the US may be out in front developing the next generation of Crispr-based genetic tools, but it’s China...

Human Genetic Modification

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Mountain View Commemorates Lab of William Shockley, Acclaimed Physicist and Vocal Racist

By Sam Harnett, The California Report | 08.21.2018

Last week, nearly 400 people crowded in front of 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View to commemorate what was...

Biotech & Pharma