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

Stem Cells Made by Cloning Adult Humans

By Monya Baker, Nature | 04.28.2014

Two research groups have independently produced human embryonic stem-cell lines from embryos cloned from adult cells. Their success could reinvigorate...

Bioethics

State Stem Cell Agency’s at a Crossroads

By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 04.28.2014

In a few days, the $3 billion California stem cell agency is slated to pick a new president who will...

Biotech & Pharma

Science Media Centre Spins Pro-GMO Line

By Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch | 04.28.2014

A new report commissioned by Prime Minister David Cameron suggests that GMOs have now been shown to be safe and...

Biopolitics

DNA Day Hype

By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 04.25.2014

Happy DNA Day everyone. On this date in 1953, Nature published four articles on the structure of DNA, including the...

Bioethics

Infertility, Endured Through a Prism of Race

By Tanzina Vega, The New York Times | 04.25.2014
WASHINGTON — Like many single women, Heather Lawson hoped she would meet the right man with enough time to get...
Public Opinion

Neanderthals Are People, Too

By Svante Paabo, The New York Times | 04.24.2014
LEIPZIG, Germany — I NEVER met my paternal grandfather. He died of the Spanish flu in 1919 at the age...
Bioethics

Guidelines for Finding Genetic Variants Underlying Human Disease

By Daniel MacArthur and Chris Gunter, Genomes Unzipped | 04.24.2014

New DNA sequencing technologies are rapidly transforming the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases, but they also carry a risk: by...

Biotech & Pharma

Bracing For A Battle, Vermont Passes GMO Labeling Bill

By Eliza Barclay and Jeremy Bernfeld, NPR | 04.24.2014
The Green Mountain State is poised to become the first to require food companies to label products containing genetically modified...
Biopolitics