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

Interview: The Global Trade in Reproduction

By Carmel Shalev, BioEdge | 09.20.2014
Untitled Document Dr Carmel Shalev, of Israel’s Haifa University, is organising a session on helpful and harmful practices in the...
Assisted Reproduction

Fertility Clinics: What the Law Says

By Laignee Barron, The Phnom Penh Post | 09.20.2014
Untitled Document

In most instances, the practice of assisted reproductive technologies comes before the legal regulations are enshrined, and Cambodia...

Global Governance

Is Modern Technology Killing Us?

By Erica Etelson, Truthout | 09.19.2014
Untitled Document

"Science now makes all things possible . . . but it does not thereby make all possible things...

Biotech & Pharma

A New Generation of GMOs

By Josie Garthwaite, Ensia | 09.18.2014
Untitled Document

Thousands of researchers will descend on Boston this fall for an event billed as the world’s largest gathering...

Genetic Selection

Three-Parent Babies: It's More Messy Than we Thought

By Editorial, New Scientist | 09.18.2014
Untitled Document

IN A few weeks, the UK is set to decide whether to become the first country to allow...

Genomics

MacArthur Grant Sheds Light on Reproductive Technologies

By Elayne Clift, Sentinel Source | 09.18.2014

A couple has had miscarriages, considered in-vitro fertilization, discussed adoption and finally opted for a surrogate to bear their baby...

Biopolitics

Under the Skin

By Nathaniel Comfort, Nature | 09.18.2014
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
Nicholas Wade
Penguin: 2014.
ISBN: 978-1594204463

Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in...
Bioethics

Surrogates and Couples Face a Maze of Laws, State by State

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 09.17.2014

When Crystal Kelley, a Connecticut woman who had signed a contract to bear a baby for a couple in her...

Assisted Reproduction