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

In Thailand, Baby Gender Selection Loophole Draws China, HK Women to IVF Clinics

By Byron Kaye and Khettiya Jittapong, Reuters | 07.15.2014
Untitled DocumentAt 26, with a baby daughter, a Hong Kong mother and her husband wanted a second child. To...
Genetic Selection

Thousands of Scots Children Have Their DNA Stored on Police Database

By STV, STV | 07.15.2014

Thousands of Scottish children are having their DNA stored on police computers, new figures have revealed.

The total number of...

Technologies

Reaping the Whirlwind of Nazi Eugenics

By Kate Douglas, New Scientist | 07.14.2014
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Are some fields of scientific exploration so incendiary they should be fenced off and labelled "Keep out"?

I'm...

Eugenics

A Call to François Hollande to Publicly Oppose Legalizing Surrogate Mother Contracts

By Jacques Delors and Lionel Jospin, Libération | 07.13.2014
Untitled Docume

[Translated from the French. Original is here.]

In February 2013, you made a formal commitment against the...

Assisted Reproduction

Remembering Nikola Tesla, Eugenicist

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 07.12.2014

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk celebrated Nikola Tesla’s birthday this week with a US$1 million donation to set up a Tesla...

Eugenics

Vermont High Court Decides Against State DNA Law

By Beth Garbitelli, Portland Press Herald | 07.12.2014
Untitled Document

MONTPELIER, Vt. —The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state can’t collect DNA from suspects in criminal...

Genomics

The Wild West of Zoning: Go Ahead, Create DNA-Altered Glow-in-the-Dark Roses in SoMa. Nobody’s Watching.

By Zelda Bronstein, 48 Hills | 07.11.2014

In recent weeks 48 hills has revealed that the Planning Department’s lax enforcement of San Francisco’s zoning laws has allowed...

Biotech & Pharma

Injured Argentine Winger Angel Di Maria may be Resorting to Unproven Stem Cell Therapy

By Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post | 07.11.2014
I’m not betting on it, but if, by some miracle, Argentine winger Angel Di Maria is on the pitch against...
Stem Cells