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...

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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...

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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

Finding Good Pain Treatment Is Hard. If You’re Not White, It’s Even Harder.

By Abby Goodnough, The New York Times | 08.09.2016
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Roslyn Lewis was at work at a dollar store here, pushing a heavy cart of...

Bioethics

How biotech executives profit from legal insider trades

By Damian Garde, STAT | 08.08.2016
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A biotech company called Seres Therapeutics got some bad news late last month: Its all-important infectious disease drug ...

Human Genetic Modification
Amid the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples, immigration, sterilization, and other eugenic policies attempted to socially engineer Australia's gene pool.

Mind your genes! The dark legacy of eugenics lives on

By Natasha Miller, ABC [Australia] | 08.08.2016
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From enforced sterilisation to the fledgling foundations of education in Australia, eugenics left a dark stain on the...

Disability Rights

Silicon Valley was going to disrupt capitalism. Now it’s just enhancing it

By Evgeny Morozov, The Guardian | 08.06.2016
Untitled Document The chances that, in a few years’ time, people will be able to receive basic healthcare without interacting...
Genomics

Do Olympians Have Better Genes Than You And Me?

By Christina Farr, Fast Company | 08.06.2016
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Gymnast Simone Biles's signature move: Two backflips in the air, with straight legs, and a blind landing after...

Genomics
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US government may fund research to combine human cells and animal cells

By Associated Foreign Press, Associated Foreign Press | 08.05.2016

Research that mixes human cells into animal embryos could get US government funds for the first time under a new ...

U.S. Federal

The $100,000-Per-Year Pill: How US Health Agencies Choose Pharma Over Patients

By Fran Quigley, Truthout | 08.05.2016
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Don Reichmuth survived prostate cancer once before, back in 2007, so his physician was concerned when tests recently...

Bioethics

The Human Egg Business: More Media Coverage of California Cash-for-Eggs Legislation

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 08.05.2016
Untitled Document A renewed legislative effort in California to pay women for handing over their eggs for research is attracting...
Bioethics