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

Gene Editing: How much justice delayed or denied?

By Nicholas G. Evans, Impact Ethics | 12.02.2015
The International Summit on Human Gene Editing: A Global Discussion is a three-day event convened by the Chinese Academy of...
Human Genetic Modification

Can Biometrics Solve the Refugee Debate?

By Katie Worth, PBS Frontline | 12.02.2015
Untitled Document

Of all the doors into the United States, the one that refugees must pass through is perhaps the most...

Genomics

Scientists, Ethicists Debate Future of Gene Editing

By Karen Pallarito, HealthDay | 12.02.2015
Untitled Document

What if faulty genes in your DNA could be easily corrected, avoiding the ravages of diseases like cystic...

Genetic Selection

This Week, Top Geneticists Want to Decide If GMO Humans Are OK

By Alex Pearlman, VICE Motherboard | 12.02.2015
Untitled Document

The world’s top geneticists met in Washington, DC Tuesday to discuss the future of human genome editing at...

Synthetic Biology

China 'clone factory' scientist eyes human replication

By Rebecca Davis, Agence France Presse | 12.01.2015
Beijing (AFP) - The Chinese scientist behind the world's biggest cloning factory has technology advanced enough to replicate humans, he...
Other Countries

Genetically engineered children?

By Marcy Darnovsky, The Hill | 12.01.2015

Should powerful new molecular engineering techniques be used to create genetically modified children? This is the question – literally, about...

Genetic Selection

Le génie génétique face au risque eugéniste

By Corine Lesnes, Le Monde | 11.30.2015

En février 1975, un groupe de 150 scientifiques se réunissait à huis clos au centre de conférences d’Asilomar, près de Monterey...

Bioethics

Disgraced clone expert set for big comeback

By Chang May Choon, The Straits Times | 11.30.2015
South Korean stem-cell expert Hwang Woo Suk, who fell from "supreme scientist" status to almost a pariah in cloning research...
Human Cloning