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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...

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

'Smart Genes' Prove Elusive

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 09.08.2014

Scientists looking for the genes underlying intelligence are in for a slog. One of the largest, most rigorous genetic studies...

Bioethics

A Manifesto for Playing God with Human Evolution

By Carl Elliott, New Scientist | 09.08.2014
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Fancy living forever, or uploading your mind to the net? The Proactionary Imperative embraces transhumanist dreams, but reminds...

Genetic Selection

Editing DNA Could be Genetic Medicine Breakthrough

By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.07.2014
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A new way to make powerful changes at will to the DNA of humans, other animals and plants...

Genomics

Body Upgrades may be Nearing Reality, but Only for the Rich

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 09.05.2014
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Homo sapiens were not always so special. In the ancient past, other human forms lived beside us. The...

Human Genetic Modification

Australian Federal Court Rules Isolated Genetic Material can be Patented

By The Guardian, The Guardian | 09.04.2014

The federal court has ruled that a company may patent genetic material that has been extracted from the human body...

Genomics

Where is the brain in the Human Brain Project?

By Yves Frégnac & Gilles Laurent, Nature | 09.03.2014
Launched in October 2013, the Human Brain Project (HBP) was sold by charismatic neurobiologist Henry Markram as a bold new...
Biotech & Pharma

Australian Father of Thai Surrogate Twins Charged with Sexually Abusing Them

By The Telegraph, The Telegraph | 09.02.2014

An Australian man has been charged with sexually abusing twin girls he fathered several years ago to a Thai surrogate...

Assisted Reproduction

Monument Seeks to End Silence on Killings of the Disabled by the Nazis

By Melissa Eddy, The New York Times | 09.02.2014
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BERLIN — The first to be singled out for systematic murder by the Nazis were the mentally ill...

Arts & Culture