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

If We Create Life, Who Will Control It?

By Marcelo Gleiser, NPR | 09.17.2014
Perhaps I shouldn't have used a conditional in the title. After all, we are already creating life.

Recently, Craig Venter...
Global Governance

On the Irreversibility of Gene Drives

By Noam Prywes, The Scientist | 09.16.2014
In 2008 it was proposed to the Geological Society of London that we had entered a new geological era, the...
Global Governance

Risks of Twins, Triplets May Prompt IVF Patients to Opt for Singletons

By Alan Zarembo, The Los Angeles Times | 09.16.2014

A new study bolsters the argument that fertility doctors should transfer just one embryo at a time when they are...

Biotech & Pharma

Arizona GOP Official Resigns After Controversial Comments

By Sean Sullivan, Washington Post | 09.15.2014
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Former Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce resigned as first vice chairman of the state Republican Party Sunday after...

Bioethics

Defending Human Dignity

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.13.2014
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English barrister and medical ethicist Charles Foster has penned defence of “human dignity” as the foundation of bioethics...

Civil Society

Woman Receives First Stem Cell Therapy Using Her Own Skin Cells

By Alice Park, Time | 09.12.2014
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Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan surgically transplanted a sheet of retinal pigment cells...

Stem Cells

Life is Random

By Cailin O’Connor, Slate | 09.11.2014
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Is our behavior determined by genetics, or are we products of our environments? What matters more for the...

Bioethics

New Details Emerge on Retracted STAP Papers

By David Cyranoski, Nature News Blog | 09.11.2014

New leaked e-mails showing the comments of referees for Science and Nature provide more insight into the saga of the...

Biopolitics