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

Opinion: Why Selling Kidneys Still Won't Work

By Art Caplan, NBC News | 10.24.2013
If the price was right, would you sell your kidney to someone who desperately needs a transplant? A new article...
Other Countries

Companies Rush to Build ‘Bio-Factories’ for Medicines, Flavorings and Fuels

By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post | 10.24.2013
For scientist Jack Newman, creating a new life-form has become as simple as this: He types out a DNA sequence...
Genomics

1.7m DNA Profiles Cut From Database

By Press Association, Press Association | 10.24.2013

More than 1.7 million DNA profiles of innocent adults and children have been deleted from the national database, ministers have...

Bioethics

Review: <i>Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense</i>

By Evan Charney, Logos | 10.24.2013

Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber, eds. Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013)

This timely and important...

Media Coverage

Biology's Brave New World

By Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs | 10.24.2013
In May 2010, the richest, most powerful man in biotechnology made a new creature. J. Craig Venter and his private-company...
Global Governance

A Former IVF Baby on "Three-Parent IVF"

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 10.24.2013

I have my parents, and biotechnology, to thank for bringing me into this world; I was an IVF baby...

Assisted Reproduction

Brain Decoding: Reading Minds

By Kerri Smith, Nature | 10.23.2013
Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated...
Biotech & Pharma

Case Explores Rights of Fetus Versus Mother

By Erik Eckholm, The New York Times | 10.23.2013

JACKSON, Wis. — Alicia Beltran cried with fear and disbelief when county sheriffs surrounded her home on July 18 and...

Bioethics