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

Extraordinary Stem Cell Method Tested in Human Tissue

By Helen Thomson, New Scientist | 02.05.2014
Talk about speedy work. Hot on the heels of the news that simply dipping adult mouse cells in acid could...
Stem Cells

Why the Promise of Cheap Fuel from Super Bugs Fell Short

By Martin LaMonica, MIT Technology Review | 02.05.2014
Biotech company LS9 launched in 2005 with great ambitions: founded by premier scientists and top-flight venture capitalists, it planned to...
Media Coverage

Worlds, and Wombs, Collide in Kansas Bill Criminalizing Surrogate Pregnancy Contracts

By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 02.05.2014

In late January, Kansas State Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook introduced a bill that would have criminalized the use of surrogate contracts...

U.S. States

On Race, Medicine, and Reproduction: An Interview with Dorothy Roberts

By Sophia Seawell, Bluestockings Magazine | 02.04.2014
Dorothy Roberts is a scholar, professor, author and social justice advocate, and currently the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at...
Bioethics

New Rule Allows Patients to Get Test Results Directly From Labs, Without Doctors’ Clearance

By Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post | 02.03.2014
Patients may obtain their test results directly from the laboratory that produced them, without having to go through their doctors...
Bioethics

Ethics Questions Arise as Genetic Testing of Embryos Increases

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 02.03.2014
Her first thought after she heard the news, after she screamed and made her mother and boyfriend leave the room...
Genomics

Ireland Publishes Draft Surrogacy Legislation

By Antony Blackburn-Starza, BioNews | 02.03.2014

Untitled Document The Irish Government has agreed to put forward proposals for a wide-ranging bill that features provisions on surrogacy...

Other Countries

Global Patent War Looms With Epoch-Making Discovery of STAP Cells

By Tatsuyuki Kobori and Akiyoshi Abe, The Asahi Shimbun | 02.03.2014
Japanese researcher Haruko Obokata's recent breakthrough in the creation of pluripotent stem cells in mice is set to trigger an...
Biopolitics