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

Judge warns privacy of DNA at stake after ruling

By Ian Duncan, The Baltimore Sun | 08.30.2014
As the state's highest court upheld this week a Harford County rape conviction based on DNA collected from the arm...
Genomics

Stem cell industry's 'huge development' in Bay Area

By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.29.2014

Almost three years after a Bay Area company shut down the world's first clinical trial of a therapy using embryonic...

Biotech & Pharma

Stem cell therapy a primitive art

By Jill Margo, Financial Review | 08.27.2014
Stem cell therapy can be a rough art. That it has only been proven effective for some blood and immune...
Biotech & Pharma

Using Light Technique, Scientists Find Dimmer Switch for Memories in Mice

By Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 08.27.2014
Memories and the feelings associated with them are not set in stone. You may have happy memories about your family’s...
Bioethics

Thailand’s Business in Paid Surrogates May Be Foundering in a Moral Quagmire

By Thomas Frank, The New York Times | 08.26.2014
PAK OK, Thailand — Soon after the first surrogate mother from this remote village gave birth, neighbors noticed her new...
Other Countries

British baby Gammy: Surrogate claims mum refused to take disabled twin

By Ellen Wallwork, ParentDish | 08.26.2014
A British surrogate mother of twins has said the intended mother rejected one of the babies because she was born...
Bioethics

When Big Data & Infants' Privacy Collide

By Alison Diana, Information Week | 08.25.2014
For decades, hospitals have conducted blood tests on newborns, checking babies for various conditions, treatable and not. Today's less costly...
Genomics

Medical dilemma of 'three-parent babies': Fertility clinic investigates health of teenagers it helped to be conceived through controversial IVF technique

By Steve Connor, The Independent (UK) | 08.25.2014
A private fertility clinic in the United States has launched an investigation into the health of 17 teenagers who were...
Assisted Reproduction