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The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.06.2025

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies.

His work was reviled as reckless and unethical because, among other reasons, gene-editing was so new...

Genetic Selection

Baby Bonuses and Motherhood Medals: Why We Shouldn’t Trust the Pronatalist Movement

By Staff, National Women's Law Center | 08.13.2025

INTRODUCTION

Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump administration to help encourage women to have more children.

Besides falling short of ensuring that people have what they need...

Human Genetic Modification

We Don’t Know if the Babies Born From Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy Will Still Develop Mitochondrial Disease

By Katherine Drabiak, Journal of Medical Ethics Forum | 08.07.2025

^{Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at

National Human Genome Research Institute}

Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...

Assisted Reproduction

Can doctors test embryos for autism? And should they?

By Brittany Luse, Liam McBain, and Neena Pathak, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.28.2025

A newly available kind of genetic testing, called polygenic embryo screening, promises to screen for conditions that can include cancer...

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Project 2025 Isn’t Just Anti-Abortion. It Attacks Surrogacy, IVF, Contraception.

By Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout | 07.27.2024

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Early childhood educator Sammi Gerken, a married mother...

U.S. Federal

J.D. Vance’s Appalachian Graveyard

By Elizabeth Catte, In These Times | 07.25.2024

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In May, two months before his selection...

U.S. States

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China: Leaked Plan Reveals Bid To Get Officials To Have More Children

By Chen Zifei, Eurasia Review | 07.24.2024

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A leaked internal draft document from the municipal health authority in the southeastern Chinese...

Other Countries

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The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

By Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge | 07.24.2024

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Last week, the founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz declared their allegiance to...

U.S. States

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A Disease That Makes Children Age Rapidly Gets Closer to a Cure

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.24.2024

A cure for an ultrarare disease, progeria, could be on the horizon. The disease speeds up aging in children and...

Human Genetic Modification

Real-Life Biotech Firm Petitions Star Trek's Federation on Reddit to Change Galactic Law

By Russ Burlingame, Comicbook | 07.23.2024

Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences, a biotech company that's putting together plans to orchestrate the de-extinction for animals like the dodo...

Genetic Selection

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Disabled Bodies and Enabling The Creation of The Medical Genetics Profession

By Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 07.22.2024

Medical geneticists and genetic counselors have an often complicated and at times tense relationship with people with disabilities, their families...

Genomics

The fertility industry: profiting from vulnerability

By Editorial Staff, The Lancet | 07.20.2024

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Despite major advances in securing sexual and reproductive rights globally, one aspect is continually...

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