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

Global Genomic Data-Sharing Effort Kicks Off

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.06.2014
The number of sequenced human genomes will soon jump from the thousands to the millions. But a recently established high-profile...
Bioethics

Study Gives Hope of Altering Genes to Repel H.I.V.

By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 03.05.2014

The idea of genetically altering people’s cells to make them resist the virus that causes AIDS may seem like a...

Human Genetic Modification

Epigenetics: The sins of the father

By Virginia Hughes, Nature | 03.05.2014

When Brian Dias became a father last October, he was, like any new parent, mindful of the enormous responsibility that...

Genomics

Sequencing Pioneer's Startup Plans to Promote Better Aging

By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | 03.04.2014
Human genome sequencing pioneer J. Craig Venter has jumped with both feet into biomedical sequencing with his latest venture, Human...
Synthetic Biology

Reproduction 3.0

By Leah Ramsey, Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin | 03.04.2014
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a historic public meeting last week, considering for the first time experiments...
Human Genetic Modification

Hospital Delivery Charges Significantly Higher When Babies Conceived Through Assisted Reproductive Technologies

By Miriam Zoll, Reporting on Health | 03.04.2014

A new study published in the Journal of Perinatology [1] online has found that from 2009-2011 in California, hospital delivery...

Biotech & Pharma

The Commercialization of Human Eggs in Mitochondrial Replacement Research

By Donna L. Dickenson, The New Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 1 | 03.04.2014

After the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) in 2007, the pressure to commercialize women’s eggs for stem cell...

Human Cloning

Privatizing Biomedical Citizenship

By Jonathan Kahn, HealthLawProf Blog | 03.03.2014

Genomic research is at an impasse.  In the decade since the completion of the first draft of the human genome...

Genomics