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

Race, Genetics and Voting?

By Ian Haney López, Moyers & Company | 07.18.2014
Untitled Document

Writing recently in The New York Times, Thomas Edsall linked race, genes and political ideology. Edsall, a...

Biopolitics

Rethinking 21st Century Racism on the Way Home

By Victoria Massie, GeneWatch | 07.17.2014

Returning home from fieldwork can be difficult when you find yourself caught between an unintended call back to your project...

Racial Justice

Proposed Gene Technology Could Alter Organisms in Wild

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe | 07.17.2014
Untitled Document

A powerful new technology could be used to “edit” the genomes of organisms in the wild, enabling researchers...

Environmentalism

California Lawsuit Charges StemCells, Inc., with Putting Patients at Risk

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.17.2014
Untitled Document
A former senior manager at StemCells, Inc., which holds a $19.4 million award from the California stem...
Stem Cells

Proposed Gene Technology Could Alter Organisms in Wild

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe | 07.17.2014
Untitled Document

A powerful new technology could be used to “edit” the genomes of organisms in the wild, enabling researchers...

Environmentalism

Closing the Information Gap on International Surrogacy

By Elayne Clift, Women's Media Center | 07.16.2014
Untitled Document

Beth G. had eight miscarriages before she and her partner considered in vitro fertilization (IVF). The couple also...

Assisted Reproduction

C.D.C. Director Admits to Pattern of Unsafe Practices

By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 07.16.2014
Untitled Document

Under sharp questioning from members of Congress on Wednesday, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease...

Environmentalism

California Lawsuit Charges StemCells, Inc., with Putting Patients at Risk

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.16.2014
Untitled Document
A former senior manager at StemCells, Inc., which holds a $19.4 million award from the California stem...
Stem Cells