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

I Had My DNA Picture Taken, With Varying Results

By Kira Peikoff, The New York Times | 12.30.2013
I like to plan ahead; that much I knew about myself before I plunged into exploring my genetic code. I’m...
Genomics

An Ethics for the Future of Genetic Testing

By Sara Hendren, The Atlantic | 12.30.2013
The available prenatal testing technologies for expectant parents are constantly changing in dramatic and subtle ways, and 2013 saw its...
Biotech & Pharma

New Finding Has Major Implications for Genetic Testing as Researchers Learn that Greater Numbers of Humans Have Multiple Personal Genomes

By Pamela Scherer, Dark Daily | 12.30.2013
Here is a human genome curve ball for pathologists and clinical laboratory scientists engaged in genetic testing in their medical...
Genomics

The Biological Inferiority of the Undeserving Poor

By Michael B. Katz, Social Work and Society International Online Journal | 12.24.2013
. . . if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our...
Bioethics

CRISPRs Enlisted to Study Mutations Across an Entire Mammalian Genome

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 12.24.2013

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have developed a technique to create a comprehensive library of mutations across all...

Animal Biotechnologies

Only High-Risk Women Need Breast Cancer Gene Test: Experts

By Dennis Thompson, US News | 12.23.2013
Nine of 10 women do not need and should not receive genetic testing to see if they are at risk...
Biotech & Pharma

Doctors' Group Sounds Warning on Freezing Eggs to Buy Time on Your Biological Clock

By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, NBC News | 12.23.2013
Thinking about freezing your eggs to buy yourself a few more baby-making years? Not so fast, says the American College...
Public Opinion

Screening Newborns For Disease Can Leave Families In Limbo

By Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR | 12.23.2013
For Matthew and Brianne Wojtesta, it all started about a week after the birth of their daughter Vera. Matthew was...
Bioethics