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

Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: a Case of Potential Harm

By Nancy Fliesler, Vector | 05.05.2014

Last November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a “cease and desist” order to 23andMe, a major purveyor of...

Bioethics

Fertility Guru's IVF warning: Rich Could Pay to Have Brighter Babies

By Mario Ledwith and Fiona Macrae, Daily Mail | 05.05.2014
Breakthroughs in IVF could ‘threaten our humanity’ by prompting parents to demand designer babies, Robert Winston has warned.

The fertility...
Genomics

Consumer Gene Tests Face Uncertain Future

By Andrea Kissack, KQED | 05.05.2014
Untitled Document

Consumers who want to find out about their genetic health risks without going to the doctor and paying...

Genomics

Genome Sequencing: A Costly Way to Save

By Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun | 05.04.2014

Whole genome sequencing has officially entered the medical mainstream and kicked off an era of truly personalized medicine.

California-based Illumina...

Biotech & Pharma

Not Your Everyday, Dull-as-Dishwater Paternity Case

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 05.04.2014
An investigation at the University of Utah is testing the presumption that IVF clinics are delivering babies who are the...
Assisted Reproduction

Ending Discrimination in Surrogacy Laws

By Anil Malhotra, The Hindu | 05.03.2014
Untitled Document

Recent meetings on March 6 and 7 of departments and ministries of the Government of India, to discuss...

Other Countries

US Paediatrician Attacks Surrogacy

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 05.03.2014
Supporters of surrogacy often claim that on the whole, women in developing countries benefit from the system, as they earn...
Bioethics

Hidden Clinical Trial Data about Lupron

By Lynne Millican, Impact Ethics | 05.02.2014

In 1989, I received a prescription for the drug Lupron from a world-renowned Boston hospital for treatment of endometriosis and...

Assisted Reproduction