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

Human gene editing is a social and political matter, not just a scientific one

By Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 12.04.2015

An international summit on human gene editing drew hundreds of people to Washington DC for three days this week, with...

Genetic Selection

The Human Germline Genome Editing Debate

By Charis Thompson, Impact Ethics | 12.04.2015
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An International Summit on Human Gene Editing, co-hosted by the US National Academy of Sciences and National...

Genetic Selection

Gene editing: Is era of designer humans getting closer?

By Fergus Walsh, BBC | 12.03.2015

An international meeting of leading scientists has said it would be "irresponsible" to allow the creation of genetically altered humans...

Human Genetic Modification

Scientists Seek Moratorium on Edits to Human Genome That Could Be Inherited

By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 12.03.2015
An international group of scientists meeting in Washington called on Thursday for what would, in effect, be a moratorium on...
Human Genetic Modification

Data Storage on DNA Can Keep It Safe for Centuries

By John Markoff, The New York Times | 12.03.2015
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SEATTLE — Computer data has been depicted as microscopic magnetic smudges, electric charges and even Lilliputian patterns of...

Genomics

No designer babies, but summit calls for cautious research

By Lauran Neergaard, AP | 12.03.2015
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A tool to edit human genes is nowhere near ready to use for pregnancy —...

Genetic Selection

Florida Police Used a Smidgen of DNA to try to Fully Reconstruct an Alleged Criminal's Face

By Erin Brodwin, Business Insider | 12.02.2015
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A genetics company called Parabon Nanolabs recently analyzed some remnants of DNA from a crime scene — not for fingerprints, but to create a...

Genomics

The major concern about a powerful new gene-editing technique that most people don't want to talk about

By Tanya Lewis, Business Insider | 12.02.2015

Scientists, bioethicists, and members of the public have descended on Washington, DC this week for an international meeting to discuss...

Human Genetic Modification