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

CRISPR: Move Beyond Differences

By Charis Thompson, Nature | 06.24.2015
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This autumn, researchers and other experts will come together to discuss the scientific, ethical and policy issues associated...

Bioethics

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: NAS and NAM Initiative on Human Gene Editing

By Announcement, Committee On Science, Technology, and Law | 06.24.2015
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The National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine are launching a major initiative to guide...
Bioethics

Unregulated Surrogacy: Law Yet to Deliver

By Vandana Shukla, The Tribune [India] | 06.24.2015
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India is among just a handful of countries —including Georgia, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine — and a few...

Global Governance

Unregulated Surrogacy: Law Yet to Deliver

By Vandana Shukla, The Tribune [India] | 06.24.2015
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India is among just a handful of countries —including Georgia, Russia, Thailand and Ukraine — and a few...

Global Governance

Can DNA Testing be Trusted? The Shockingly Imprecise Science of a Proven Courtroom Tool

By Katie Worth, Fusion | 06.24.2015
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Years later, none of it — not 84-year-old Eleonora Knoernschild’s bloody body on the shag carpet, not the...

Biotech & Pharma

CRISPR: Science Can't Solve it

By Daniel Sarewitz, Nature Comment | 06.23.2015
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This year, several leading researchers have sounded warnings about the risks of using the CRISPR gene-editing technique to...

Bioethics

Seven Questions for Personalized Medicine

By Michael J. Joyner & Nigel Paneth, JAMA | 06.22.2015

Personalized or precision medicine maintains that medical care and public health will be radically transformed by prevention and treatment programs...

Technologies

Should You Freeze Your Eggs?

By Debora Spar, Marie Claire | 06.22.2015
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Nine years ago, when she was 28, TLC's Dare to Wear host, Tai Beauchamp, called off her engagement...

Bioethics