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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

IVF Booster Offered in Canada But Not US

By Alison Motluk, Canadian Medical Association Journal | 01.14.2015
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A new fertility treatment that purports to help older women get pregnant by boosting the energy in their...

Other Countries

23andMe Turns Spit Into Dollars in Deal With Pfizer

By Caroline Chen, Bloomberg | 01.12.2015
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23andMe Inc., the genetic-testing startup backed by Google Inc. (GOOG), is sharing DNA data on about 650,000...

Genomics

Artificial Intelligence Experts Sign Open Letter to Protect Mankind From Machines

By Nick Statt, CNet | 01.12.2015
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We're decades away from being able to develop a sociopathic supercomputer that could enslave mankind, but artificial intelligence...

Bioethics

Taxpayers Spend $140 Billion Funding Science Each Year — But Can't Access Many of the Results

By Julia Belluz, Vox | 01.10.2015

The British commentator George Monbiot once compared academic publishers to the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, concluding that the former were...

Civil Society

Stem Cell Bill to Thwart False Claims

By Bangkok Post, Bangkok Post | 01.10.2015

The Public Health Ministry is drafting a bill to regulate stem cell treatment to protect consumers from exaggerated claims and...

Bioethics

Surrogate Mothers Do Fine In Decade Following Birth

By Lisa Rapaport, Reuters | 01.09.2015
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(Reuters Health) - A decade after giving birth, surrogate mothers don't appear to suffer lasting mental health difficulties...

Bioethics

23andMe’s New Formula: Patient Consent = $

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 01.06.2015

Facebook generates about $8 a year in revenue from each of its users. But what if you offered a company...

Genomics

State Courts Strike Blows to Criminal DNA Collection Laws in 2014—What to Look for in 2015

By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 01.05.2015

DNA can reveal an extraordinary amount of private information about you, including familial relationships, medical history, predisposition for disease...

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