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

Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
Assisted Reproduction

Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
Assisted Reproduction

Reproductive Rights and Responsibilities

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 10.17.2013
    "The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."

    — 23andMe.com

Our family legal...
Assisted Reproduction

The Killing Point

By Leigh Cowart, NSFWCorp | 10.16.2013
I first read “Man and Superman”, Malcolm Gladwell’s piece on performance-enhancing drugs, at two in the morning. Unable...
Media Coverage

Epigenetics: How to alter your genes

By Chris Bell, The Telegraph | 10.16.2013
Towards the end of the Second World War, something unprecedented happened in modern Europe: a famine. Operation Market Garden, the...
Biotech & Pharma

Regulators Weigh Benefits of ‘Three-Parent’ Fertilization

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 10.15.2013
Regulators in the United States are considering whether to permit trials of a controversial assisted-reproduction technique intended to help women...
U.S. Federal

Dominic Cummings may Disagree, but Wealth is Considerably More Heritable than Genes

By Polly Toynbee, The Guardian | 10.14.2013
Sliding into reverse: that's the unwelcome finding of Alan Milburn's social mobility and child poverty commission to be published this...
Bioethics

Inside 23andMe Founder Anne Wojcicki's $99 DNA Revolution

By Elizabeth Murphy, Fast Company | 10.14.2013
There's a lot you can do for your child with 99 dollars.

You can purchase 14 gallons of organic milk...
Patents & Other IP