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

Cloning a Punishable Offense

By Arab News, Arab News [Saudi Arabia] | 04.13.2015

Experiments or research in human cloning is an offense punishable by law and any violation means a fine of SR200,000...

Biotech & Pharma

Markingson case: University of Minnesota can't regain trust under current leadership

By Arne H. Carlson, Star Tribune | 04.13.2015
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“The University constructed a defense to deny liability by claiming immunity. I think that defense evolved or you...

Human Rights

The Conflict Between Human Rights And Biotechnological Evolution

By Srinivas Raman, Eurasia Review | 04.11.2015
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In 1997, Dolly the sheep became the first mammal ever to be successfully cloned. This was a major...

Biopolitics

Reality Check: Is Sex Crime Genetic?

By Emily Underwood, Science Magazine | 04.09.2015
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A splashy headline appeared on the websites of many U.K. newspapers this morning, claiming that men whose brothers...

Biotech & Pharma

Genetic Engineering & The Future Of Humankind

By Jamie Metzl, IVY Magazine | 04.09.2015
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What would happen if you could order your baby online, the way you might order and customize a...

Bioethics

Genetic Engineering & The Future of Humankind

By Jamie Metzl, Ivy Magazine | 04.09.2015

What would happen if you could order your baby online, the way you might order and customize a pizza? Six...

Human Genetic Modification

Baby Genes to be Mapped at Birth in Medical First

By Helen Thomson, New Scientist | 04.08.2015

IF YOU could gaze into a crystal ball and discover whether your newborn baby might have health problems, would you...

Genomics

Human Genetic Engineering Demands more than a Moratorium

By Sheila Jasanoff, J. Benjamin Hurlbut and Krishanu Saha, The Guardian | 04.07.2015
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