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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

Would-Be Parents Fleeced, Surrogates Abandoned by Mexican Surrogacy Operation Planet Hospital

By Jane Cowan and Bronwen Reed, ABC [Australia] | 07.08.2014
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An unscrupulous surrogacy operation in Mexico has left clients thousands of dollars out of pocket, and dozens of...

Global Governance

Stem Cell Treatment Causes Nasal Growth in Woman's Back

By Clare Wilson, New Scientist | 07.08.2014
Untitled Document

A woman in the US has developed a tumour-like growth eight years after a stem cell treatment to...

Stem Cells

Former CEO of California Stem Cell Agency Named to Board of Firm that Received $19 Million From the Agency

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.07.2014
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Alan Trounson, the former president of the $3 billion California stem cell agency, today was named to...
Stem Cells

Seedy Tale: Chinese Researchers Stole Patented Corn, U.S. Prosecutors Allege

By Mara Hvistendahl, Science | 07.07.2014
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The court documents read like something out of a Coen brothers film. Employees of the Chinese agricultural company...

Other Countries

Scientists Threaten to Boycott €1.2bn Human Brain Project

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 07.06.2014
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The world's largest project to unravel the mysteries of the human brain has been thrown into crisis with...

Biopolitics

Coming to U.S. for Baby, and Womb to Carry It

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 07.05.2014
Untitled Document

At home in Lisbon, a gay couple invited friends over to a birthday celebration, and at the end...

LGBTQI

China Approves DNA-Sequencing Devices to Detect Genetic Defects in Unborn Babies

By Angela Meng, South China Morning Post | 07.03.2014
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The mainland has lifted the controversial ban on medical diagnostic products that can help detect birth defects in...

Genetic Selection

Science Joins Push to Screen Statistics in Papers

By Richard Van Noorden, Nature News | 07.03.2014
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The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt...

Civil Society