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

Guarantee Privacy to Ensure Proper Treatment

By Jeremy Gruber, The New York Times, Room for Debate | 04.14.2014
It’s now over a dozen years since the mapping of the human genome was completed, and the pace of discovery...
Genomics

You Can't Clone Dogs Without Lots of Suffering - Why Scientist who Created World First 'Frankenstein Pet' has Quit

By Christopher Bucktin, Mirror | 04.12.2014
As she plays in the San Francisco surf, Lou Hawthorne’s mongrel dog Mira looks just likes any other.

Part Husky...
Bioethics

Human Rights Body Warns Over Mass DNA Screening

By Elaine Edwards, The Irish Times | 04.11.2014
A Government proposal which would allow the taking of DNA samples for “mass screening” of certain “classes”of individuals should be...
Other Countries

Pharma to fork: How we'll swallow synthetic biology

By Colin Barras, New Scientist | 04.10.2014
A REVOLUTION is brewing in Bulgaria – quite literally. In vats similar to those used to ferment beer, genetically modified...
Other Countries

Stocking the Genetic Supermarket: Reproductive Genetic Technologies and Collective Action Problems

By Chris Gyngell and Thomas Douglas, Wiley Online Library | 04.10.2014

Various technologies already exist that enable parents to determine whether their future children will have or lack certain genetic predispositions...

Human Genetic Modification

Fetal Abnormalities: The Next Minefield in the Abortion Wars?

By Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, The American Prospect | 04.09.2014
In January, two legislators in Virginia’s House of Delegates introduced a bill that should have been uncontroversial. The bulk of...
U.S. States

Ontario to fund in-vitro fertilization with a caveat — one embryo at a time to cut risky multiple births

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 04.09.2014
The Ontario government announced Thursday it will become only the second province in Canada to fund in-vitro fertilization [IVF] for...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

Meet your unborn child – before it's even conceived

By Catherine de Lange, New Scientist | 04.09.2014
WILL my baby be healthy? It's a question that concerns every prospective parent. Now a service that creates digital embryos...
Genetic Selection