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

A genetic “Minority Report”: How corporate DNA testing could put us at risk

By Benjamin Winterhalter, Salon | 01.26.2014

On Nov. 22, 2013, the FDA sent a now-infamous letter to the genetic research startup 23andMe, ordering the company to...

Genomics

California’s stem cell agency poised to bet big on genomics research

By David Jensen, Sacramento Bee | 01.26.2014
The state of California is preparing to make a bet of up to $40 million on a fast-moving field that...
Fact Sheets

Is genius in the genes?

By Steven Rose, TES | 01.24.2014

Genes, intelligence and education: a heady brew of issues. Add class, race or gender, as has happened so many times...

Bioethics

F.B.I. Audit of Database That Indexes DNA Finds Errors in Profiles

By Joseph Goldstein, New York Times | 01.24.2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a review of a national DNA database, has identified nearly 170 profiles that probably...
Genomics

Court: Marotta is a father, not merely a sperm donor

By Steve Fry, Topeka Capital-Journal | 01.23.2014
A Topeka man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple is the presumptive father to a baby one of the...
LGBTQI

A Chinese Prodigy's Quest For The Genetic Roots Of Genius

By Ursula Gauthier, Worldcrunch | 01.22.2014
BEIJING — When he was 17, Zhao Bowen was a bored student who made an audacious decision. In a country...
Genomics

Americans: Cloning, IGM Research

By Peter Moore, YouGov | 01.21.2014

In this YouGov/Huffington Post poll, the questions are:

Which comes closest to your opinion about scientific research on human, plant...

Public Opinion

Editorial: Don’t rush to rehabilitate Hwang

By Editorial, Nature | 01.21.2014

An article published on Nature’s website last week has created quite a buzz in South Korea. It details efforts...

Animal Biotechnologies