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

Lord Winston’s Warning

By Gulzaar Barn, Practical Ethics | 08.05.2014
Untitled Document

Last month Lord Robert Winston delivered the Physiological Society summer lecture entitled, ‘Shall we be human in the...

Bioethics

STAP Stem Cell Controversy Ends in Suicide for Japanese Scientist

By Karen Kaplan, L | 08.05.2014
Untitled Document

A Japanese scientist who played an instrumental role in two discredited studies about a new type of stem...

Stem Cells

STAP Stem Cell Controversy Ends in Suicide for Japanese Scientist

By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 08.05.2014
Untitled Document

A Japanese scientist who played an instrumental role in two discredited studies about a new type of stem...

Stem Cells

Genetic Testing of Citizens: A Backdoor Into Total Population Surveillance by Governments, Companies

By Helen Wallace, Epoch Times | 08.03.2014
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The new Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Simon Stevens, was recently reported arguing...

Other Countries

China Experiences a Booming Underground Market in Surrogate Motherhood

By Ian Johnson and Cao Li, The New York Times | 08.02.2014
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WUHAN, China — In a small conference room overlooking this city’s smog-shrouded skyline, Huang Jinlai outlines his offer...

Assisted Reproduction

Huntington Man Deals with Mitochondrial Disease as Preventive Measures Debated

By Kathleen Kerr, Newsday | 08.01.2014
Untitled Document

Ted Tiller gets around his Huntington home in a wheelchair, battling a rare disease that has left him...

Human Genetic Modification

Genome Project Will Transform Cancer Care

By Ian Sample, The Guardian [UK] | 07.31.2014
Untitled Document

Tens of thousands of NHS patients are to be invited to donate their DNA for research as part...

Genomics

Australian Couple Leaves Down Syndrome Baby with Thai Surrogate

By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 07.31.2014
Gammy, a six-month-old baby abandoned by his Australian parents, could die because his impoverished Thai surrogate mother cannot pay for...
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