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

School Achievement Isn't Just in Your Genes

By Steven Rose, New Scientist | 10.18.2013
Is intelligence genetically determined? You might think so, if you saw the headline-grabbing report from UK education advisor Dominic Cummings...
Media Coverage

Five-Minute IVF is Better and Cheaper, Say Experts Scientists

By Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph | 10.17.2013
Scientists said the treatment offered particular hope for older women and could be performed with none of the side-effects associated...
Biotech & Pharma

Decades Later, Condemnation for a Skid Row Cancer Study

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.17.2013
A medical researcher from Columbia University, Dr. Perry Hudson, made the skid row alcoholics in Lower Manhattan an offer: If...
Human Rights

Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life

By Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 10.17.2013
A bacterium has had its genome recoded so that the standard language of life no longer applies. Instead, one of...
Biotech & Pharma

More Young Women Serving as Egg Donors, Report Says

By Melissa Dahl, Today | 10.17.2013
More young women than ever are donating their eggs to help other people become parents, according to a new report...
Bioethics

'Where Did I Come From?' Donor Eggs, Sperm and a Surrogate

By Anndee Hochman, The Inquirer | 10.17.2013
The first time Andrew Botwin said "Daddy," his mother gulped.

Was this the moment Shari Botwin had anguished about ever...
Bioethics

The Rise of Gender Selection among Middle Eastern Couples

By Rachel Williamson, Middle East Monitor | 10.17.2013
Sex selection is a dirty phrase in Western countries, but Middle Eastern couples are jumping on fertility technology as changing...
Other Countries

New DNA Test can Catch Elite Cheats

By Corey Allen, The University of British Columbia | 10.17.2013
Researchers develop easier, faster test to spot blood doping

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new...
Bioethics