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

Last Scientist in Congress has Human Genetic Engineering Warning

By Bill Foster, The Hill | 07.08.2015

It is rare that prominent members of the scientific community come together to warn our leaders of technological breakthroughs that...

Human Genetic Modification

Six Months of Progress on the Precision Medicine Initiative

By Brian Deese & Stephanie Devaney, Office of Science and Technology Policy | 07.08.2015
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In January 2015, President Obama launched the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), a bold new research effort to revolutionize...

Genomics

Drifting Away from Informed Consent

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Report | 07.07.2015

The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...

Bioethics

Drifting Away from Informed Consent in the Era of Personalized Medicine

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Report | 07.07.2015

The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...

Genomics

Drifting Away from Informed Consent in the Era of Personalized Medicine

By Erik Parens, The Hastings Center Report | 07.07.2015

The price of sequencing all the DNA in a person's genome is falling so fast that, according to one biotech...

Genomics

Genome Researchers Raise Alarm Over Big Data

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 07.07.2015
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The computing resources needed to handle genome data will soon exceed those of Twitter and YouTube, says a...

U.S. States

Our Focus on the Future Present

By Jacob Corn, Innovative Genomics Initiative blog | 07.06.2015
Untitled Document

It’s been a rather wild ride in the last month, which hasn’t left much time for blog posts. But...

Bioethics

Infertile Couples Hope New Technology Helps Select Most Successful Embryos

By Michelle Munz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 07.05.2015

The video is about 30 seconds long. Dawn Guhe has watched it at least 100 times. It captures the first...

Bioethics